Word: borrowings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Under the Harvard Plan, a student who qualifies for financial aid may borrow up to $1500 a year to meet expenses for college, graduate school or professional school so long as his total indebtedness does not exceed $7500. The College will attempt to limit loans to $1000 per year per student...
...then invested the money in five pinball machines. (He later bought the popper back, and it now stands in his office.) By 1933 he had saved $1,700-all from nickels pumped into his machines-and used it to build a house. Soon after, Wilson was able to borrow $6,500 on the house from a bank. "Right then," he says, "I decided to go into the building business...
...requests for franchises a year, but only 200 or so are granted, mostly to people who already own inns and are proven winners. The cost of land and construction is entirely financed by franchisees, who put up about a quarter to a third of the amount and borrow the rest from banks, insurance firms or mortgage companies. Lenders prefer prospective franchisees over independent owners because there is less risk of failure with a motel (hat is backed by the resources of a chain...
Americans feeling dehumanized by having their names replaced by numbers can take heart. They too can play the numbers game-and all in the name of law and order. Police in Scarsdale, N.Y., have just instituted an antiburglary campaign called Project Theft Guard in which residents may borrow an electric engraving pen and etch their Social Security numbers on such stealable items as TV sets, record players, typewriters, jewelry and bicycles. The home owners are also given stickers declaring THIS HOUSE HAS JOINED PROJECT THEFT GUARD to paste on their front and back doors. The safety measures, say police, will...
Radcliffe was almost forced to withdraw from the competition when they were unable to find a shell in which to race. Harvard refused to lend the 'Cliffe a four, but Radcliffe coach Garret Oimstead was finally able to borrow a shell from...