Word: borrowers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...soaring energy costs, many Third World countries have been forced to borrow voraciously from big banks, notably in the U.S. Now, that rising mountain of debt is casting an ominous shadow across the international banking scene. A growing number of monetary experts, bank regulators and economists are concerned about the ability of some less developed countries (LDCS) to pay off. They worry that a series of defaults could severely jolt the banking systems of the U.S. and other major lending countries-and perhaps imperil the Western economies...
...finally going to declare his devotion. "It's really a shame I don't go out with women who are as smart as me," he told her. "You are really very sweet." They walked back to her Leverett House dorm and he asked if he could borrow some money. He wanted to buy perfume for his 16 year old girl friend.31Tim Carlson, Mark Lennihan and P. Wayne Moore...
Brisk Trade. Finding work is seldom a problem, as long as the immigrants are not fussy about what they do, and few are. All they have to show an employer is a Social Security card, which is about as hard to acquire as a Popsicle. They can either borrow one, buy a forged one or get a genuine one by submitting a driver's license...
...consumers fattened their savings accounts instead of spending. The country's savings and loan institutions, prime source of housing mortgage money, not only replaced the cash that drained out of them during the money squeeze of 1973-74, but grew heavy with funds that no one wanted to borrow. Now mortgage interest rates have declined to a national average of 8½% to 8¾%, v. 9% at the height of the money squeeze, and S and Ls are requiring as little as 10% down, compared to 1974 when buyers had to put up as much...
...operations, for example, are sent home only five days after surgery-compared with a typical ten-day hospital stay in the U.S. For these Auckland patients, however, hospital care continues at home. Nurses pay them regular visits. Family members are trained to meet their special needs. Patients may even borrow hospital equipment. It may be an everyday item like a bedpan or cane-or more complicated gear: a respirator, wheelchair or even an electrical hoist like the one that helps Susan Foss...