Word: borrowers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...equates defeat with failure runs the risk of creating angry outcasts who eventually seek revenge and justification. In extremity, such explosive emotions can drive frustrated losers to the crime of "magnacide" (killing somebody big). Lee Harvey Oswald, the archetypal U.S. assassin, almost certainly murdered John F. Kennedy partly to borrow for himself the luster of a glamorous winner. The Oswalds are rare. Still, Americans do need a lot more help in coping with the problems of losing...
...Faculty will probably have to borrow from the University Treasury if the 1968-69 deficit is larger than $500,000, Ford said. "We either have to borrow from them," he said after the meeting, "or else dip into unrestricted endowment--and that is something that northeastern universities are notably reluctant...
...from $400 million to more than $1 billion annually, and the country's cumulative deficit grew to $555 million. Tax dodging by the privileged was flagrant, but Belaúnde's programs were in any case beyond Peru's fiscal capacity. So he went abroad to borrow money to keep his plans afloat, until the foreign debt mounted to $900 million...
...enjoyed your article about mysterious pictures [Sept. 6]. Like most art historians, the problem has long fascinated me and I finally did an exhibition on the subject a few years ago. Unfortunately, I was unable to borrow all the things I wanted as many museums will not publicly admit that certain of their pictures are problems...
Away from Railroads. Last week an international syndicate of investment houses, including Lehman Brothers and Paris' Pays-Bas bank, underwrote a $30 million issue of Utah convertible Eurobonds offered to non-American buyers. The company will borrow another $50 million or so from banks in the U.S. and abroad. All the money will be used in the development of a promising new coal field in Australia, which represents Utah's largest single undertaking...