Word: borrowings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...films] are about $100 apiece, which is a bit much for the Cabot House budget," Byndloss said. "I thought the College could buy them and use them as a lending library would, letting tutors from different houses borrow them and use them however they choose...
...borrow Nelson Rockefeller's words, no politician with an ego--which means all politicians--has ever wanted to be "vice president of anything." But being Veep is still the surest road to the top, which is why Gore-Kemp will be worth watching even if Clinton-Dole never rises beyond a boring done deal...
...last week, to borrow an old Chicago convention phrase, the whole world was watching. As it became clear to Morris on Wednesday what the Star was planning to print, he contacted several White House aides, including press secretary Mike McCurry, who was aboard Clinton's campaign train, the 21st Century Express. McCurry urged Morris not to fill him in on details. That way, when reporters asked for confirmation, McCurry could honestly claim not to know...
...borrow lightly from the esteemed former Senator Webster, picture a cog as one that functions as a necessary but subordinate part of a larger process, organization as system. Then change the process, so that we no longer need the cogs, and there you go, all these unnecessary little metal bits clogging up the system, bungling effiency standards, slowing the gears...
Hilton has been a middling performer, even though its earnings increased last year about 40%, to $121.7 million on sales of $1.65 billion. But the company carries little debt and can borrow money more cheaply than most competitors, a considerable advantage because in Bollenbach, 54, Hilton has one of dealmaking's master players. Indeed, there's barely a major hotel company that doesn't bear his imprint. "He is the best in the hotel business," says Bjorn Hanson, head of hotel-industry practice at Coopers & Lybrand, an accounting and consulting firm. "He has demonstrated that in what he has done...