Word: borrows
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...went to the bathroom, and I didn’t have my contacts on so I couldn’t see very clearly. Somebody was taking a shower in the third shower. He came out fully clothed, and asked if he could borrow my conditioner because he was visiting somebody who wasn’t ‘very-well stocked...
...speaking to the many victims whom Kissel defrauded over the years. Last week he was set to admit in federal court that he had cheated financial companies out of millions of dollars. According to the Times, Kissel forged documents to pretend that he owned properties so that he could borrow against them. He also admitted pilfering millions of dollars from a Manhattan apartment building on whose board he once served. Kissel made good on that debt, paying the building back $4.7 million, which included interest. But he still had to face fraud charges in the case from the Manhattan district...
...more people that you will probably end up disliking. Not like you’ll see them anyway—the truth is that if someone lives in a different entryway, let alone a different house, you will have almost no inclination to see them unless you need to borrow Drumline or some equally hilarious Nick Cannon DVD. “I Want to Be Quaded”: The Fallacy According to our “inside” source, an overwhelming number of blocking groups are making the bold claim that they want to live in the Quad...
Dear Molly, My roommate keeps borrowing my stuff without asking. At first it was just movies and books, but I saw her wearing one of my shirts out last weekend before I had even worn it. I also think she may have taken money off of my desk. Suggestions? —Annoyed in Adams Dear Annoyed, Do you like this roommate, independent of her possible kleptomania? If you do like her and would like to live with her in the future, feel free to skip down to the third paragraph. If her lax definition of “borrowing?...
...long ago, amid much fanfare, Summers announced that Harvard would no longer require low-income parents to contribute to college costs. What did not get reported was that low-income students must still borrow sums nearly as large as before. The Harvard Financial Aid Initiative costs the University less than $2 million per year, or six weeks’ pay for one fund manager...