Word: getting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hitherto top-secret information, Bull ran a front-page ad in the London Times requesting "History of E. Bear Esquire. Reminiscences, Data, Photographs." He also issued public pleas for facts and figures on arctophilia during television appearances with "Theodore," oldest of his own Teddies (all of whom, he complains, get into "a foul temper" when he is away from them). Letters poured in from both American and British bear lovers, as well as from several bears ("They are just as articulate as Other Persons"). Bull soon discovered that of the 250 Teddy bears lost on transport vehicles in London each...
...squeeze on credit. Banks are curtailing bond buying and mortgage lending in order to conserve scarce funds for direct loans to business. Insurance companies, which are normally major buyers of bonds and mortgages, are being drained of cash by loans that they must make to policyholders who cannot get credit so cheaply elsewhere. But the bond-mortgage slump reflects even more the ravages of inflation. Corporations, for example, are hurrying to build new plants before construction costs rise even further (see following story), and are selling huge quantities of new bonds to raise the cash. This month U.S. corporations will...
What Is High? Simultaneously, inflation makes bonds or mortgages unattractive investments. If prices kept on rising during the 20 to 40 years that investors often must wait for full repayment of principal, investors eventually would get back dollars worth much less than those they originally lent. Meanwhile, interest rates would keep on climbing-to levels that might make even today's yields look piddling because lenders would demand even higher returns to keep ahead of prices. (Some mortgage lenders now grumble that they are "stuck" with loans made years ago at interest that seemed high then...
...spaced out in two long rows until they felt they had really waited their turn. I did some light reading and struck up a conversation with the man who had been warming up. He told me how he missed his blood appointment that morning and had skipped lunch "to get this over with." He said he was an old pro at giving blood, and had once given two pints within three weeks. After he described in detail his career as a Harvard administrator. I felt we had talked long enough: I decided it was my turn...
...Faculty cannot and does not want to prevent individual Harvard professors and graduate students from accepting Cambridge Project funds. Harvard traditionally allows its scholars to accept any outside research funding they can get, provided certain conditions-such as no classified research-are met. The Cambridge Project meets those conditions...