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Word: borrowings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Seamus Heaney is one of the great poets of our century. He has written verse that is moving, always complex and yet powerful in its simplicity--'so pellucid it can never be muddied,' to borrow one of his lines," President Neil L. Rudenstine said in a press release yesterday. "Harvard has long been fortunate to have Seamus Heaney on its faculty, and the entire Harvard community joins with his admirers around the world in congratulating...

Author: By Benjamin D. Oppenheimer, | Title: Heaney Wins Literature Nobel | 10/6/1995 | See Source »

Patrons will be able to borrow CDs from Lamont for two weeks with unlimited in-hand renewal. Because the collection is so small, however, only two CDs may be checked out at a time...

Author: By Nelson C. Hsu, | Title: Lamont Library Makes CD-ROMs Available | 10/5/1995 | See Source »

Both sides spent fortunes to sway the jury with testimony from scientific experts. The crucial difference was that the defendants had corporate treasuries to tap, whereas Schlichtmann and partners had to borrow heavily, not only to pay for medical and hydrology studies but also to keep up appearances. Anything less than the leading experts or the best hotels and restaurants might signal that they could not go the distance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: A CASE OF JURISIMPRUDENCE | 10/2/1995 | See Source »

...must recognize that the conflict is now a part of the past. The war's resolution has not brought lasting peace and stability to Iraq, to say nothing of the Middle East as a region. The question the American people are justified in asking General Powell is (to borrow from Janet Jackson): What have you done for us lately...

Author: By David B. Lat, | Title: The Powell Doctrine | 9/19/1995 | See Source »

...bonds of neighborly interdependence. Among the Aranda Aborigines of Australia, the anthropologist George Peter Murdock noted early this century, it was common for a woman to breast-feed her neighbor's child while the neighbor gathered food. Today in America it's no longer common for a neighbor to borrow a cup of sugar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE EVOLUTION OF DESPAIR | 8/28/1995 | See Source »

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