Word: borrowings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nation's most impoverished areas in the Great Depression. His father, a land-poor, dirt-poor migrant farmer, went as far north as Canada to harvest crops. From the age of five, Harris accompanied him. To Harris, a bank was "more than a place to deposit and borrow money; it was almost a kind of religious institution." His father "was a different man, it seemed to me, when he went to the bank. He took his hat off the minute he walked through the door." Whenever Harris and his chums spotted a shooting star, they yelled "Money!" three times...
Johnson said he soon perceived the probability of a market for such a publication, and in 1942 he used his mother's furniture for collateral to borrow $500 and form Negro Digest (now Black World). Three years later he started Ebony, which now has a circulation of 1.3 million...
...creation of a panel to oversee the bank's role in funding the municipal debt. This group might look into allegations that the big New York banks encouraged the city to borrow more than it needed and that they conspired to set interest rates artificially high...
...least arguable contentions of the feminist movement is that a woman should be able to borrow as much money, and as easily, as a man of the same ability to repay. But women can cite many examples of pervasive discrimination against them in the granting of credit, such as these...
Piracy is an amazingly effortless business. Studios never sell prints of their films, and even make their own actors sign strict loan agreements before they are allowed to borrow films for their own collections. Robert Young testified in a recent piracy trial that he got possession of prints of only two of the 125 movies he made during a 40-year career. Nonetheless, the pirates can easily get prints by bribing or stealing from lab technicians, theater projectionists, members of student and religious groups who rent films, truckers who deliver the prints to theaters, and even the people licensed...