Word: borrowing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...audience in an introductory speech, April 23rd was a significant day in the life of William Shakespeare: it's both the day on which we think he entered the world in 1564, and the date on which we know he left it in 1616. This year, Wood decided to borrow an idea from a community theater troupe in her home town and stage a commemorative evening of Shakespeare here at Harvard...
...facilities are amazing, with grand pianos, hundreds of videos you can borrow, cable television in the common areas, a dance studio, a computer lab and the Fishbowl (come visit...
...Stanford University finance officer, now a consultant on the subject. And parents bore it. Throughout the '80s, says Meyerson, parents came increasingly to feel that a college education was a necessity, a direct conduit to a high-paying job. Easy financial credit, moreover, made it possible for parents to borrow large sums of money; doing so for college became more socially acceptable. From 1983 through 1988, the number of applications to Penn rose 25%, despite the cost. "It was a crescendo," Meyerson says. "People were willing to spend an awful lot more for collegiate education...
...what's called rock these days does seem like folk music. It does seem absurd that there are punk rockers in the late '90s rebelling against their parents with their parents' music. I can't quite get my head around that. It's "Dad, you suck--can I borrow your Sex Pistols album?" White-bread rock has, for me, lost its sense of adventure and seems very tired in comparison...
...free cash is like our savings account and if we take money out of our savings account, then it becomes harder for us to borrow money," he said...