Word: borrowings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even flickers of ingenuity where Matthews weaves Eliotisms directly yet unobtrusively into the narrative--"Eliot's return to Harvard was (you may say) satisfactory." Lifting most of this line straight out of Journey Of the Magi, Matthews adopts a form of Eliot's own philosophy, that "immature poets borrow, mature poets steal...
...plastic resin that is in short supply because of the energy crisis. His normal supplier could not deliver in less than four months, and waiting that long would cost Wheaton a potential contract. Caulfield knew someone who had a silo full of the resin, and made a deal to borrow 40,000 Ibs. -which he will repay by turning over the resin that his normal supplier eventually delivers...
Kraus said it was possible for students to borrow money for day care, but said that when the student borrows from federally insured or Direct Student Loan Program funds, he is technically borrowing "for educational expense...
...scrutinize a bill introduced recently by Rep. James G. O'Hara (D -Mich.) that incorporates many of the suggestions of the Sloan Report. The bill will allow families with up to $20,000 in annual income to qualify for interest subsidies. The bill would also permit students to borrow up to $2000 a year, an increase of $500 over the current loan ceiling...
...bred to expect, could offer at least the illusion of security. Anchored here, she could persuade herself that she'd outgrown the drug scene as a passing affair, a heady flirtation. She would deny it all by welding her life to another, lived twice as long. She could even borrow upon the example of her parents' marriage to tell herself that she had found love at last and place a magical efficacy in the crowd...