Word: borrowers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deal. The ATMS limit you to $400, but by going into a bank that honors MasterCard, as most do, you can grab a cash advance equal to your entire available credit. From a human teller (remember them?). Because of the $20 cap, that 2.5% maxes out at $800. Borrow more, and the effective percentage you pay begins to fall. Say you borrow $2,000. The charge is still $20, which works out to 1%. Borrow $10,000, if your credit limit is that high, and you still pay just $20. (At least until someone at AT&T reads this...
...borrow money from people at the store...
...these trends have created an "industrial reserve army" -- to borrow a term from Karl Marx -- so large that a quite extraordinary and prolonged surge in output would be required to put all its members to full- time, well-paid work. Two indications of the yawning chasm between job supply and demand, in Detroit alone: in October, the Detroit Post Office handed out 20,000 applications for such jobs as clerk, sorter and letter carrier, even though it announced it would have at most a few hundred openings and that some of them would not be filled for three to five...
...acts up every now and then. So far, no one's had to take FM and Crimson aside and say, "Now look. Do we have to separate you two?" It's not as if we borrow Crimson's clothes or anything. But someone has to be the pest, so we use their writers, their photographers, their cartoonists. We tug on beat reporters' sleeves and ask them to write Scrutinies. We hog the design computer's scanner. We'd tattle on The Crimson, if it was ever naughty. We even tag along when Crimson goes out with its friends...
...parody must borrow a certain amount of a song "so you know what is being made fun of," argued the rap group's attorney, Bruce S. Rogow. "Parody is a fair use unless it materially impairs the market for the original," he said...