Word: borrowing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...each digit is twice the one to the right; one 4, one 2, one 1, adding up to 7. Similarly, 5 is 101 (one 4, no 2s, one 1). Once they are well grounded in the new math concepts, even small children can easily "carry" and "borrow" with large numbers. They simply "regroup" by tens...
...short of students. It aims to enroll about 6,000, now has only 550. With its outsize faculty of 109, the college maintains, for example, one math course for two students, one geology class for one student. Thus curiously balked at home, Kenya's secondary graduates beg or borrow to get a higher education overseas. Hundreds flocked to the U.S. in recent years as part of Justice Minister Tom Mboya's "airlift," which provided scholarships to U.S. colleges. Kenya now has 1,150 students in the U.S., 1,400 in Britain, 200 behind the Iron Curtain...
...which had managed to be hostile in turn to Constable, Turner, Whistler, the Pre-Raphaelites, French impressionism and most everything else that subsequently mattered. "Mal à la Tate," punned a peeved Punch. At first the trustees forced the stepchild Tate to accept Victorian tearjerkers that no one will even borrow today. The Tate did not succeed in winning its complete autonomy from the National Gallery until 1955, and it had to wait till after World War II for annual government grants, still a pittance at $112,000 a year, to buy works...
...marched back to exchange wrong-sized gloves, unwearable ties or too-flimsy negligees (total returns equal about 8% of the year's sales), stores baited their welcome with year-end clearance sales. Because most stores do not like to tie up their money in big inventories, they usually borrow against expected sales at Christmastime to lay in the big holiday stock they need, like to get rid of whatever is left quickly in order to cut their interest payments and clear their stocks for spring merchandise. "Business between Christmas and New Year's is always fabulous," says Robert...
Hansberger kept the company healthy by merging selectively, by persuading bankers to lend him huge sums ("We've just never been turned down when we wanted to borrow," he says), and, most importantly, by luring a small army of dedicated business school graduates to Idaho. Fourteen Harvard men have followed Hansberger westward, including five this year; one recent recruit is Charles Tillinghast III, son of the president of Trans World Airlines. Working hard, the young men have revitalized the company with selling flair and bright ideas, have cracked their way into markets once considered unattainable...