Word: borrowers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Interest rates are on the rise, and if you are holding a variable-rate loan or need to borrow now, you may well ask why. You will not be happy with the answer. Wall Street, of course, is ground zero, but don't go looking for logic there. All you'll find is a bunch of paranoid bond traders with more worries than a Woody Allen character. It is these traders who have decided that the prices you pay for gas, Wheaties and SUVs are about to start shooting higher, and so they are selling bonds--driving up bond yields...
...previous phases-my desire to please other people and my desire to dress in a way I enjoy. When I go home, my sister (who now wears almost no make-up and has become fond of sweatpants) gives my wardrobe the ultimate tribute-she asks to borrow everything in it. I take what some might sniff at as fashion risks. But, as my hair brightly demonstrates, I'm proud of what I wear...
...Matt doesn't mind seeing his father around campus. "I see my dad all the time," he says. "I might run into him or go to his office to say hi and borrow his car. For a lot of people it would be a bugout, but it was something that I wanted." On the other hand, Professor Kishlansky thinks that he sees his son less often. "We share a printer," he says. "That's my way of making sure that...
...fight between my daughters over who has the most Beanie Babies, run a spoon through the garbage disposal by mistake and field a string of phone calls--three from telemarketers who know they'll find me home at this hour, one from a younger sibling who wants to borrow $300. My six-year-old needs a hug. My nine-year-old needs a ruler with centimeters on it. My toddler needs to slam two pot lids together...
Nowadays nothing succeeds like Shakespeare. I acknowledge borrowing from Dumas for that phrase, just to keep out of trouble. You see, the trouble with Shakespeare--and success--is that everyone wants a cut, kind and unkind. Not only is Hollywood ransacking the bard's works for the play that might be the next big thing, but the question has arisen of who really wrote Shakespeare in Love. The London press pointed out last week that the screenplay of that very palpable hit has remarkable similarities to the plot of No Bed for Bacon, a 1941 novel by Caryl Brahms...