Word: borrowings
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Granting the poor title to their homes and businesses would allow them to use that collateral to borrow or raise capital for business expansion, De Soto says. He notes that the property-title revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries was a catalyst for capitalism's triumph in Western Europe and North America...
Nish scoffs at traditionalists in the U.S. who object to meddling with the sacred cows of Japanese cuisine. "The Japanese are very good at borrowing things and making it their own - even in their cooking," he says. "Tempura came from the Portuguese. It's been argued that even sushi was a Korean development. So why shouldn't we borrow from the Japanese and make it ours...
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Patrick is in college at UCLA, and Morgan has graduated and moved away, but the feeling of family among the three adults grows ever stronger. They borrow one another's cars. Jim comes downstairs to use Adair's copier. Adair runs upstairs to borrow tomatoes from what she calls "the Jimstore." Bill or Jim often cooks dinner for the other two. Indeed, a colleague once quipped that Adair's divorce was better than most people's marriages...
...even if they themselves have never left Brazil. Says Puritz: "If people don't have that intellectual dexterity of understanding how other cultures work, they won't succeed in this business." That's a sentiment chanted over and over again by other executives at international firms. "You need to borrow the know-how of local culture and local law," says Cendant's Pfeffer. "It's important that you not project any arrogance...