Word: borrowings
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...supply in order to slow a rapid price rise, the Federal Reserve Board acted so decisively that the financial markets reacted with hysteria. Interest rates rose rapidly, the Dow Jones average sank 25%, and many lenders were so short of funds that it became extraordinarily tough for corporations to borrow...
...opened 27 homes, and its revenues have climbed from $3.2 million in 1967 to $17.4 million last year. Some chains have ambitious expansion plans. Four Seasons Nursing Centers of America, a 40-home Oklahoma chain that has grossed more than $6,000,000 in fiscal 1968, is negotiating to borrow $45 million to promote a home franchising program. Still other companies have shown enough growth potential to become takeover targets. International Chemical & Nuclear Corp. two weeks ago agreed to buy Monterey Nursing Inns, a 31-home Ohio chain with 1968 revenues of $3,000,000. The price: an estimated...
...immediate reason for the jump to last week's peak was the rush to borrow Eurodollars for conversion into German marks. Big-time speculators found it much easier to borrow on the Eurodollar market than to dig into their own pockets for the money...
...typical audience is a group of innocent people collapsed into a cavern, some out of duty, some out of curiosity, a few out of vanity, sensuous lust, of sheer chance. To borrow an image from F. Scott Fitzgerald, the musical landscape is like the ears of Dr. T.J. Eckleberg poised over a valley of ash in which there rests a supine multitude, with a string quartet in the middle playing uneasily. Yet there precariously exists among these people a fund of instinctive love for art. The problem is that this regard, if it hasn't been ground to pieces...
...Cage and Stockhausen. The latter reacted against the old ghosts of Kingsor and Vienna, Wagner and Schoenberg himself. The new principle was that the legitimacy of music flows simply from the auditor's effort to feel sheer sounds. Music is the sensitized constancy of the world's masses. To borrow a term from language studies, music is mimetic; it imitates life as it strives to express it. In the music of chance, the craft of composition refers more to the preparation of the listener than to the formal organization of technical elements. The cry that chance music is anarchic...