Word: borrowings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dressers or provoked their boyfriends to jump on them." But the prospect of trying to support yet another child made her sick with worry. "My hair started coming out," she says. After many anxious days, she finally got an abortion last week after she was able to borrow the money...
...Chinese and Scottish strains of descent; and the rock band Yothu Yindi. There may be a parallel between the Aboriginal Renaissance and a recent surge in white Australian self-discovery. For the first time, archives across the country are besieged by people looking for their family history -- seeking, to borrow from Morgan's title, their place...
Instead, Gates says "we've got to borrow a leaf from the right, which is exemplarily aware of the role of education in the reproduction of values." Gates just wants to reproduce the "correct" values. And why not? The alternative is the teaching of the present "aesthetic and political order," composed of the subjective experiences of white men, reconstituted in the texts of the canon...
...Morris Zapp is the only one--Stanley is very old friend of mine, and I did borrow some things from Stanley, who was notorious for writing his books on Milton while watching American football or baseball. But Morris Zapp is a kind of typical; figure, who has been "identified" with other academics--Leslie Fiedler or Harold Bloom or whatever. And it pleases me, because he is a representative type--and Stanley has rather encouraged the likeness, I think. On the whole, I'm very careful not to portray people--I don't write romans a clef, though Small World...
Economists and politicians of many stripes charge that the 1986 reforms have dragged down the U.S. economy by punishing hard work, thrift and investment while encouraging Americans to borrow and spend beyond their means. Council of Economic Advisers chairman Michael Boskin argues that the 1986 law "sharply reduced incentives for investment, and we're paying a price for that in slower < growth." Liberals attack the current system as both unfair and unproductive. Robert Shapiro, a domestic-policy adviser to Democratic presidential front runner Bill Clinton, charges that "our tax code has been encrusted with layer upon layer of distortions...