Word: borrowings
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Patrons will be able to borrow CDs from Lamont for two weeks with unlimited in-hand renewal. Because the collection is so small, however, only two CDs may be checked out at a time...
Both sides spent fortunes to sway the jury with testimony from scientific experts. The crucial difference was that the defendants had corporate treasuries to tap, whereas Schlichtmann and partners had to borrow heavily, not only to pay for medical and hydrology studies but also to keep up appearances. Anything less than the leading experts or the best hotels and restaurants might signal that they could not go the distance...
...must recognize that the conflict is now a part of the past. The war's resolution has not brought lasting peace and stability to Iraq, to say nothing of the Middle East as a region. The question the American people are justified in asking General Powell is (to borrow from Janet Jackson): What have you done for us lately...
...bonds of neighborly interdependence. Among the Aranda Aborigines of Australia, the anthropologist George Peter Murdock noted early this century, it was common for a woman to breast-feed her neighbor's child while the neighbor gathered food. Today in America it's no longer common for a neighbor to borrow a cup of sugar...
Sure the salaries bankers and traders made are astronomical, the work-hours never end and the office watering hole's beers cost $5, but what shocked me most in this world of the "Masters of the Universe" (to borrow a phrase from Tom Wolfe) was the aura that surrounded all of it. Quite simply, the entire culture displayed a male-dominated character which exceeded anything I had imagined or even believed possible...