Word: borrowings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Other marshals, however, were more vocal about their ideas. Nong’s older sister, Chantal, graduated from Yale in 2003, and Nong hopes to borrow ideas from Yale’s senior activities...
...Vote or Die Family, choosing to borrow their name from Sean Combs was an appropriate choice—as a voting party featuring vodka and music seems a method “P. Diddy” would likely endorse. But Harvard’s Vote or Die division has a more specific goal than voter turnout; in the recent Undergraduate Council election they endorsed nine candidates who they felt would better serve the needs of a diverse student body. By encouraging students to vote and become more engaged in the process of selecting student government leaders, the Vote...
...alienating Muslims whose help the bureau needs in identifying suspicious people. Agents have been asking law-abiding migrs to report strangers who spout radical rhetoric or who have large sums of money and no jobs; those who rent apartments and vanish for weeks; or people who borrow cell phones and computers to message friends abroad...
...entrust my health and well-being to a 14-year-old rider named John, whose safety gear I will borrow after his ride. I lean on the eye-high fence to see him last an impressive 7 seconds (in competition, you need 8 to win) on a near-full-grown bull before being tossed off and landing on his head. He hands me his equipment and insists to his hovering cloud of pre-pubescent admirers that he is fine, but I catch him rubbing his head for several minutes afterward. The helmet I wear is his, and it?...
...council has improved its accountability and planning in recent times, but it is far from perfect. Last semester, the council had to pass an emergency bill to borrow money from the council’s Grants Fund (money set aside for student groups) to pay for some of its Spring Fest projects...