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...Medford resident reports that while working as a cab driver, he picked up a male at The Inn at Harvard. The man asked the driver to take him to the Arlington Police station. Once at the police station, the suspect asked the driver if he could borrow $100 to bail out his friend from jail. The cab driver lent the suspect $100. The suspect returned from the police station and told the driver to take him to Peabody Terrace. The suspect left the cab at Peabody Terrace and never returned...
...1980s and early '90s to an expected small surplus this fiscal year, with more to come. Kaufman notes a continuing boom in business investments and a new surge in housing--both "very unusual" for an expansion going into its eighth year. One reason: builders of factories and houses can borrow more easily, because the government no longer is gobbling up so much of the available credit to finance its deficits...
...York City changed its format in 1995, and is now exclusively playing classic soul. Immediately before the changes, 98.7 Kiss-FM was consistently the top-rated radio station in the New York Metropolitan area. I am inclined to believe that their decision was artistically motivated and, if I may borrow the colloquial, not all about the Benjamins...
...students not involved in the arts to get a glimpse of the more technical side of how theater works on campus--and maybe, on their way to the awkwardly-positioned cereal nook, to "trip" over a wire or two, or to "redesign" some scenery on the sly, or to "borrow" a prop. Of course, we at Dartboard are just joking. We would never do such a thing, especially not for the sake of that extra bowl of Cap'n Crunch. Or would...
...what it pays out in benefits. This year alone, Social Security's surplus will be about $100 billion. That money is held in a trust fund; the value of that fund now exceeds $500 billion. However, because the government spends more on other programs that it takes in, it "borrows" from the Social Security trust fund. For example, this year the government will spend about $50 billion more than it has, but it will borrow Social Security's $100 billion surplus...