Word: borrowings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what it pays out in benefits. This year alone, Social Security's surplus will be about $100 billion. That money is held in a trust fund; the value of that fund now exceeds $500 billion. However, because the government spends more on other programs that it takes in, it "borrows" from the Social Security trust fund. For example, this year the government will spend about $50 billion more than it has, but it will borrow Social Security's $100 billion surplus...
...many of us, shopping week is not easy. We come into classes late and leave early. We stand in doorways, trying to ignore the noise in the hall. We crouch on the floor and are stepped on. We impose on each other to borrow syllabi. We fill out index cards and lottery forms, read and re-read CUE guide ratings, cross-check exam and paper dates. We arrive 11 a.m. classes at 11:20 to find students, TFs and professor all gone...
...pleasant to borrow a lot of money and end up with debts owed to foreigners, as South Korea has done [WORLD, Dec. 22]. Economic dependency upon foreign capital in the end leads to crippling dependency on outsiders. But this crisis is a good chance to analyze Korea's economic and political situation. By doing so, we can make our future better. The only thing we need is time. JI HYUN KIM Pusan, South Korea...
...borrow the rant of Network's furious prophet of the little screen, Howard Beale: "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore...
Police arrested Kachadorian when he showed up at a friend's house to pick up a car that he had planned to borrow, the Middlesex District Attorney's office said in a statement...