Word: borrowing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chinese are being encouraged to study hard and think boldly. Yet if a worker goes to a library in a big city to borrow a book about art, he will in most cases be told that art books are available only for members of the official artists' societies. If a university or research institute wishes to order some books or magazines from abroad, it is not permitted to do so directly but must submit the request to higher authority for approval...
...fact, there is a formal agreement governing Faculty-Corporation financial relations; each year the Faculty may borrow the difference between what it needs and what it actually takes in, she added...
...regarded as a huge and motley totesack -- a literary receptacle for sensation and memory, hard facts now and then shifting the balance to visceral impressions and off-the-cuff (oftentimes, off-the-wall) philosophy. To call upon Dr. Johnson's phrase, Dispatches was "an irregular, undigested piece." Or to borrow a word from the French in referring to the form later perfected by the English, Herr's book was, quite frankly, an essay...
...short campaign got relief when the Federal Election Commission ruled that he will be eligible for federal funds if he winds up with 5% or more of the votes. Although how much he could get will depend on how well he draws on Election Day, Anderson now plans to borrow $5 million, raising his anticipated war chest to $ 15 million. (Candidates who do not qualify for total federal funding are allowed to raise private funds to cover the difference between their eventual government grant and the full subsidy of $29.4 million...
Even for Brazil, which has the free world's eighth largest economy (G.N.P.: $209 billion), the burden of carrying such debt is debilitating. Just paying the interest charges on it will cost $7.3 billion this year. Unable to generate such funds on its own, Brazil must borrow to stay afloat; this year it needs an additional $12 billion, but so far has managed to raise only $6.8 billion. Yet many of the big international banks are approaching their credit limits for the country...