Word: borrowings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well-run coup, the first thing to do is to seize the air. So 150 black students not only occupied four buildings but also managed to borrow the campus radio station at Amherst College last week. The varied crew of invaders included women from Smith and Mount Holyoke, men from Amherst, and both sexes from the University of Massachusetts-all within a twelve-mile radius of Amherst. Having taken their objectives, they issued demands for increased black enrollment at the schools-whose nearly 25,000 students now include only 650 blacks. They also called for complete control of a black...
...from a banana republic. It is not run by a gaudily uniformed strongman backed by a well-equipped little army. It does not even have an army; the last one was disbanded in 1948. When Lyndon Johnson visited the country in 1968. the Costa Ricans had to borrow a cannon from Panama so that they could give him the customary 21-gun salute...
...split-up is supposed to provide "flexibility for growth," but, most important, it will provide financially pressed Jim Ling with another means of raising cash. Ling, who needs millions this year to pay off loans and to service his debt, can sell off or borrow against the subdivided parts of Wilson meat more easily than the whole company. He may well be in a selling mood at a time when LTV stock is down to only 40% of its price two years ago and other LTV holdings are also depressed. Until recently, LTV officials had been negotiating to sell...
Starting today, Lamont Library will allow reprints on closed reserve to circulate outside the building for the first time. Lamont will also permit students to borrow books on open reserve for a period of two weeks...
Under the library's new policy, students can borrow open reserve books for two weeks, although fines for overdue books remain the same-25 cents per hour with a maximum charge...