Word: borrows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Castro who called for the current negotiations, in the process tweaking the U.S. with the fact that Americans had accepted as refugees any and all Cubans who stole planes to reach the mainland during the early 1960s, and continue to look the other way when Cuban refugees "borrow" Cuban boats...
...Michael Rudman has elicited ensemble acting from this group that rates close to perfect. As for the Long Wharfs artistic director Arvin Brown, he knows viscerally what is good in drama, and season after season he presents it with honesty, professionalism and élan vital. Lincoln Center should beg, borrow or skyjack...
...borrow a method which Balzac refined the physiological portrait, readers are known to be solipsistic, irritable, and insomniac; their version of the world is invented in sacerdotal studies where late at night, the loud voices competing about the lavish midnight supper tables described in Falubert's Sentimental Education in Balzac's Los: Illusions in Zola's Nana rise above the roar of traffic down in the street. Thin urban, and afflicted with nervous habits, the reader has to "put on spectacles" (and, with rare exceptions, defective in such natural endowments, he does wear spectacles) to reduce the blur which contemplation...
Despite only moderately strong corporate borrowing, U.S. bankers have been steadily edging up their prime rates on loans to businessmen. Higher rates could eventually lead to costlier consumer loans and mortgages, add to inflation and slow the economy by making businessmen more reluctant to borrow. Now members of the Administration's Committee on Interest and Dividends, headed by Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns, are warning influential bankers in New York City and elsewhere to hold down their prime rate. The message, in some cases delivered by Burns himself: lifting rates now is unnecessary and a little greedy...
...such key money market rates as those for commercial paper and certificates of deposit; other banks may well follow its lead. This will remove some immediate upward pressure on the prime rate, but a greater problem lies ahead. To finance the nation's huge budget deficit, the Treasury will borrow about $9 billion in the next two or three months. Burns has made clear that the Federal Reserve will not grind out money to accommodate a jump in borrowing demand. Thus some interest rates are certain to rise?after the election...