Word: borrowing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...MUCH OF LAST WEDNESDAY, TERRY LYNN Nichols busied himself with a few simple chores around his newly purchased two-bedroom house. He asked to borrow Etta Mae Hartke's ladder so that he could fix a loose metal vent on the roof. "I said it was O.K., if he put the ladder back," Hartke, 76, recalls. "When I looked, it was back where it was supposed to be." He had cable television installed, telling the Cablevision worker he was glad the TV was finally hooked up so he could "keep up with the Oklahoma bombing." And one of the last...
...cash we went through the last time around--when we had a much lower capital-spending plan--we believe it's absolutely prudent to have that kind of cash [the $7.5 billion] around." The Kerkorian bid has already had one negative impact on the company's ability to borrow. Reasoning that any takeover could leave the company saddled with unmanageable debt, all three credit-rating services quickly placed Chrysler's outstanding debt on their watch lists...
When Marler attempts to ennoble ordinary episodes, however, he usually resorts to self-conscious high-culture references that are merely self-indulgent. When Marler recalls a day when Cambridge was buried in an inexplicable shower of white flowers, he is borrowing from Gabriel Garcia Marquez (as he explicitly states in the program) for no other reason than to borrow from Gabriel Garcia Marquez. By the time the play ends with a quote from The Waste Land, despite its near-irrelevance to what has come before, we are not surprised; the temptation to play with his literary knowledge, and stroke...
MacGregor, like the ambitious Scotsman he is, gets the ball rolling when he determines to borrow one thousand pounds from the Marquis of Montrose (John Hurt). The wheres and whyfores are slightly complicated (manifestly humanitarian, of course), but the upshot of the deal is that word of the thousand pounds reaches the ears of the money-hungry English fop, Archibald Cunningham. In between twirling his lace cuffs and showing off his swordsmanship, Cunningham contrives to commit cool murder and expert theft, and the plot is off and running...
President Clinton signed a bill setting up a federal board to overseethe District of Columbia's finances. By giving up some of the home rule power it has had since 1974, and allowing the five-member board to overrule the budgets ofMayor Marion Barry, the city wins permission to borrow hundreds of millions of dollars from the federal Treasury. That will help pay off a $722 million annual deficit. The new law requires the city to balance its budget within three years. Clinton has not yet named the board members, but says that he's askedformer Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger...