Word: borrowings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...should farmers necessarily be faulted for accepting the money when Congress holds it out. They can borrow as much as $250,000, to be repaid in up to 20 years at the virtual giveaway interest rate of 3%. The eligibility rules, moreover, were written so loosely that far more farmers qualify than anyone expected. Sadly concedes Democratic Congressman Robert Giaimo, whose House Budget Committee has tried in vain to keep a lid on the program's overflowing costs...
...another class, this one in U.S. history, the teacher keeps up a patter of jokes and badinage. A discussion of economic competition sends him off on constant tangents. "I've got to borrow some pens," he says, leaping up and racing around the circle of desks in the room. His point, although garbled, is that pen manufacturers must be careful not to overprice or their products won't sell. When a student volunteers that his Bic pen cost 39¢, it strikes the teacher as a revelation. "Really? Have they gone up that much?" The kids loll back, tittering. "Would...
...Enable the Social Security Administration to borrow from the Treasury's ordinary tax revenues. This would be permitted only if the system's trust funds for Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance fell below 25% of their annual outgo...
Before you begin reading, go ask your roommate if you can borrow his pocket calculator. You'll probably need it as you peruse this column, because Mark Zbikowski and Tim Matthews aren't your average pigskin prophets. While members of the Cube sit in silent revery and appeal to divine inspiration when it comes to making predictions, Zbikowski and Matthews use the Science Center computer and a chain of statistical formulas to predict the outcomes of college games across the nation...
...important the completion of that return is to the people of that country. The voluntary action by Harvard this week in sending back the rest of these 3500-year-old records is an important contribution to international goodwill and will return handsome dividends when American archeologists seek permission to borrow and study the relics of other nations around the world. Edward M. Kennedy...