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...banks to prime corporate customers can be as high as 11.5%, compared with the 8.25% levied on similar loans in the U.S. Nils Lundgren, vice president of Pkbanken, a major Swedish bank, argued that the U.S. was responsible for pushing up interest rates around the globe because Washington must borrow so much money abroad to help finance the federal budget deficit ($221 billion last year). Said Lundgren: "The U.S. is using up the savings of the world...
...become common practice for PBH to borrow the shuttle buses under an informal agreement with the University, MacDonald said. A Harvard official said yesterday that he was unsure what liability, if any, the University would have assumed if any children were injured...
Even in Boston, you may be blessed with a blazing hot day. You'll go to the beach; your tan will be progressing nicely. Suddenly, the man or woman of your dreams may approach and ask to borrow your suntan oil. Is it love, or is it Comp S-164, "Studies in the Theme of Love in Literature...
...those predisposed to believe that any person who bugs white subway riders deserves nothing less than to have a few quick bullet shots sent in his general direction, the jury's not guilty verdict was hailed, to borrow one tabloid's headline, as a "Triumph for Common Sense." For those secure in their belief that America will forever look the other way when a Black person stands at the point of a white person's gun, the decision was but one more instance of the legal system's endemic racism...
Most of the IBA buildings were designed between 1979 and 1984, at the peak of international postmodern fervor. Rather than returning to neoclassical forms, as postmodernism has generally meant in the U.S., the IBA architects have tended to borrow from the early 20th century avant-garde. Aside from Kleihues, Rob Krier is probably more responsible for the results than any other architect. He was master planner for three important IBA blocks. While none of Krier's IBA architecture is great, all of it is good. His best is the main building (of nine) of a rather formal housing estate near...