Word: borrowing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cultural establishments. The Whitney Museum of American Art, for instance, displays works in three New York City office buildings. Arts institutions benefit by having highly visible locations; the companies are often allowed zoning easements because of their cultural support. Such deals, however, can be nerve-racking. Companies can borrow back exhibition space and even cancel agreements altogether...
This litany of council accomplishments is only partially complete, but it should suffice to illustrate the grossly unfair nature of yesterday's editorial. Is it "wildly optimistic," to borrow your phrase, to hope for fairer treatment of the council in the future? Richard Eisert '88 Chairperson, Undergraduate Council
What I had to do was to develop a talent "to save," and I developed it, God knows. I tried to make sure that "manuscripts don't burn," to borrow a phrase from Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita -- and to make sure that Andrei's writing would not rot in the cellars of Lubyanka or some other prison...
...come here five years ago, not knowing any English. He had to borrow from a bank to buy his taxi medallion, but now the loan is almost paid off. He is over 50, and he has spent his life -- both here and there -- behind the wheel. He says, "The Russians are a good people, what fine people! But America is the best country in the world. It is not true that there is no work. You just have to want to find it, and they'll help you and there will be work. And there is such an abundance...
...like visitor from outer space -- but in most other respects the Tanners are the very picture of TV normality. When Dad comes home from work and gets fawned over by his teenage daughter, he instantly guesses, as TV fathers have done for decades, that she wants to borrow the car. And as they have also done for decades, he puts his foot down: no driving on a school night. "If we don't respect the rules we make, we're never going to respect each other," he says at the dinner table. "I mean, have we learned nothing from watching...