Word: borrowings
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...collection, Covers Researcher Rosemary L. Frank. "This was an especially difficult job," says Frank, "because the show ranged over such a span of years. In the old days, TIME often gave the cover portrait to the subject, or let the artist keep it. We had to locate and borrow back many covers, such as Roy Campanella's and Shirley Booth's. It added up to quite a search mission...
...every member of the group will be borrowing money. Small states like Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates should remain comfortably in surplus, but hard-pressed countries with large populations, such as Nigeria and Indonesia, will have significant deficits. Richard O'Brien, an economist with American Express Bank in London, estimates that this year Nigeria and the other populous OPEC nations will probably have to sell off assets worth some $25 billion and then still have to borrow about $5 billion from banks...
...banker in Fairbury, Ill. (pop. 3,400): "I'd say 5% of Midwest farmers may have trouble surviving this year. And an additional 15% may not get through the next year." He tries to put together "survival packages" for his farm customers, advising them to use less fertilizer, borrow against life insurance and get part-time jobs off the farm, so they can hang on until times get better...
...that there is any known way to avoid these exchanges. One has books; one has friends; they are bound to meet. Charles Lamb, who rarely railed, waxed livid on the subject: "Your borrowers of books-those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes." But how are such people to be put off, since they are often we, and the non-return of borrowed books is a custom as old as books themselves? ("Say, Gutenberg, what's this? And may I borrow it?") It is said that Charles I clutched a Bible...
Agriculture. Farmers traditionally borrow heavily in order, among other things, to finance planting and machinery purchases, paying off the loans when they sell their crops. For some, the costs are becoming ruinous. In northwest Wisconsin, Walter Betzel grossed $100,000 last year from his 350 acres of corn and oats and his 30 milk cows. Some $19,000 of the amount went right off the top for interest payments. After his interest and other operating expenses, Betzel had $5,000 left to spend on his wife and three children. Says he: "We're sick...