Word: borrowings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course all this is madness. America's future is bright (if we can only teach Johnny to read, and get him to stop carrying that gun), but that doesn't mean the stock market will keep going up. Stocks may have reached "a permanently high plateau," to borrow Professor Irving Fisher's famous phrase from 1929, but that wasn't true when he uttered it, and it's probably not true now -- although this is certainly...
...backing Giuliani. The swing factor is the city's growing Hispanic electorate, which gave Dinkins 64% of its vote in 1989 but may deliver less for him this time around. Whichever candidate they elect, New Yorkers can only hope that their new chief executive will be modest enough to borrow a page or two from the new breed of mayors in America's smaller cities...
...half course, Expos is designed to be taken either in the fall or spring of our first year. Evidently, it is assumed those who are assigned to spring writing sections can wait a semester before they begin to write, or to borrow Rudenstine's definition, before they begin to "articulate what [they] think, what [they] observe, what [they] regard as evidence." What of those students who must take writing-intensive concentration tutorials in their first term? Do they get anything out of a spring writing class...
...biggest problem with her "share and care" thing is that she likes to borrow everyone else's clothes, especially mine. I was bothered when she borrowed my best sweater and left it in a heap on the common room floor, but now she's started borrowing my underwear too. I think that's disgusting and I've asked her nicely to stop, but she continues to do it. What should I do? Annoyed and frustrated Dear Annoyed...
...maximum ammount Stafford applicants may borrow during their first year is $2,625, which includes a $125 financing fee. Brenda Coughlin was a first-year student when her father applied for the loan...