Word: borrowers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Faced with the prospect that the Government would grind to a halt during the three-week congressional recess, the Democrats eventually relented and went along with a $53 billion debt-ceiling increase, raising the figure to an almost unimaginable $1.6 trillion. Even this will allow the Government to borrow only enough to pay its bills through August...
...else in the area doing pain work. I realized I didn't know anything about pain. There was little information available, and that was scattered throughout the medical literature." Out of Bonica's experiences with the wounded came his theory that the treatment of pain must borrow from a number of medical specialties...
...haphazard at best, and difficulty in finding the homes of the poor is making him even later than usual. In Baltimore, campaign workers had to hire a cab to lead a motorcade of aides and reporters to pick up Jackson at Jarrard's home Tuesday morning, and borrow $12 from a reporter to pay the fare. Even then, Aide Frank Watkins had to stop the caravan of vans and buses to ask exact directions from two children playing on a nearby sidewalk...
...read her screenplay. Sidney Stein, a novelist, invites Lazar to his home for dinner merely to lure him out into the woods and beat him up as revenge for double-dealing in a joint film project. Allen, a friend from youth, makes a homosexual pass and later tries to borrow $5,000. Even Lazar's rich Uncle Irving seems less interested in mourning his dead sister than haggling over the cost of her funeral: "This can't be the price . . . The cemetery isn't that far. If she was alive we could all walk there...
...else is reporting." His favorite story, he says unhesitatingly, was the 50th wedding anniversary reunion of a rural Mississippi family. "They had seven children, and when the first one was old enough to go to college, they hitched up the wagon to a mule and rode to town to borrow $5 for bus fare, because that was all they could give. Every one of them went on to some kind of profession. As we stood in that room and watched them, we were crying and they were crying, and we all realized that something wonderful was being said about that...