Word: borrowings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...parents will brave the age-old hazards of traveling with children: roadside diaper changes, backseat imbroglios, teenagers who would rather be anywhere else--especially since the dog just had an accident behind the cooler. According to Meredith Corp.'s Family Vacation Travel Report, about 20% of traveling parents will borrow even more trouble by including grandparents in the family vacation, while others will join the growing trend of squeezing extra mileage out of business trips by bringing the kids along. Says a road-weary mom: "Sometimes it takes so much effort to get where we're going that...
...currents in Catholicism, and has displayed a ready pen for excommunication. He is stoutly against birth control, abortions and female priests, and has similarly held the line on remarriage after divorce, annulments and celibacy in the priesthood. Infallibility is the rock of John Paul?s church. To borrow from Winston Churchill -- up with dissent he does...
Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice is a sinister sort of comedy. Antonio, a wealthy merchant whose monies are invested in risky ventures overseas, lends out the sum of 3,000 ducats so that his friend Bassanio can court the rich heiress Portia. To get the cash, Antonio must borrow it from the Jewish moneylender Shylock. Shylock agrees to lend him the sum for three months but demands as his bond a pound of Antonio's flesh. A contract is drawn up, signed and sealed, and misery descends on both parties. The mutual hatred bound up in a loan under...
...year. In Charleston, S.C., home prices rose 16% last year. In San Francisco the median home price rose 12%, to a pocket-draining $321,700. Let's put that number in perspective: to buy an average house with the standard 20% down, you would have to borrow $257,360--jum-booo...
...moment. Go for the jumbo if you can afford it. If you're just over the breakpoint, you could make a larger down payment to reduce your loan amount. But that money might be better spent in a stock fund. Another option is a piggyback structure, where you borrow just under the jumbo limit and take a second loan for the rest. That second mortgage comes at a hefty premium--maybe a couple of percentage points more than your first mortgage. But it may make sense if you retire the second loan quickly--say within five years. These options grow...