Word: borrowings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...controversial section, the committee cites widespread dissatisfaction with Cambridge's public high school system (mainly Cambridge High and Latin), and suggests that Faculty members--whether or not they live in Cambridge--be allowed to borrow money from the University to pay for their children's private high school education, as they now may do only for college. This amounts, in effect, to University subsidization of private schooling. The report does not rule out University help to improve Cambridge's schools--but it implies that Cambridge hasn't shown much interest in getting such...
Parisian designers have yielded the frontiers of fashion to London and New York. Many painters in France not only produce strictly for a New York market but also borrow in style from American trends. Among composers too, the avant-garde has moved elsewhere; French musical life has been mediocre for years...
...million involved, Ling will borrow $100 million from a syndicate of U.S., Canadian and European financial institutions with Wall Street's Lehman Bros, and Goldman, Sachs acting as bankers. Another $200 million is on hand as ready cash, including $60 million from a public sale of 600,000 shares of LTV stock last fall. LTV will raise the rest of the necessary money by selling off its interest in two insurance companies, Stonewall...
...kids, who looked reasonably neat, approached me and asked to borrow a quarter," Harry Brandt Ayers, the victim of the attack, said yesterday. "As I reached into my pocket, he hooked his arm around my free arm and threw me to the ground," Ayers, 33, said...
Goods v. Lives. The low "kill-rate," to borrow an unhappy term from the other war, was due in large measure to lessons learned from three years of urban upheaval. Heeding the advice of the Kerner riot-commission report, which warned that "the use of excessive force-even the inappropriate display of weapons-may be inflammatory and lead to worse disorder," lawmen in most cities refrained from gunplay, and magistrates quickly processed those arrested for rioting, setting low bail as the commission suggested. There were few black snipers on the rooftops; on the streets, police and National Guardsmen mostly kept...