Word: borrowings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thought her anorexic and then generously offering to "trade you my body for your mind." As it turns out, it was the one thing she had to offer in return for her weekend of plunder. As the other roommates heard Celeste admonish her strongly, saying, "No you may not borrow my underwear," they had hid their heads under their pillows and sent up a fervent prayer to the night that the interloper be teleported back to U Mass...
...borrow a phrase (and a pseudonym), meet Joe Black, as played by Brad Pitt, who has a real gift for standing around looking cute and stupid. He appears, along with chest pains and some numbness in the left arm, at an inconvenient moment in the life of an even more unlikely figure--a media mogul with a conscience--named William Parrish (Anthony Hopkins). Parrish is fighting off a takeover bid from a less savory rival and grouchily submitting to having his 65th birthday celebrated at one of those parties of the century that seem to occur once a month...
...your dreamboat if you can borrow his notes after flirtatiously tapping him on the shoulder in Bio lecture...
...kind of father who believes in videotaping his children's every last sneeze. I don't even own a video camera. I borrow one now and then to record choice events, like last weekend when toddler Clementine finally deigned to take her first E.T.-like steps. But this time, rather than record 90 minutes of raw, uncut video--which, let's not pull any sentimental punches here, would be unwatchable beyond the first two minutes--I decided to make a real movie. I had in mind something that was edited--with transitions, a sound track and a voice-over; something...
...that the Fed's second, mid-October rate cut signals a vigilance that will avert a recession, you'll find great value in the so-called cyclical stocks and in high-yield or "junk" bonds. I have avoided junk for years because too many weak companies were able to borrow at rates only slightly higher than those paid by the strongest debtors. Confidence in the economy ran so high that even companies with no hope of making a profit this decade could tap the markets cheaply. Junk-bond investors weren't getting paid enough for their risks...