Word: borrows
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Jersey Bell offering in mid-June. Some other interest rates have shown even greater declines over the same period; the average yield on tax-exempt bonds issued by states and cities, for example, has fallen to 6.16% from a record 7.12%. The "federal funds" rate at which banks borrow reserves from each other is down to 6.75% from 9.75% early this year. Even home-mortgage rates have backed off a bit from their highs, easing to an average 8.97% from 9.3% at the end of June. The drops have brought home buyers and state and city treasurers their first welcome...
...enraged. This nation can put a man on the moon. Then why in hell can't we deactivate our nerve gas [Aug. 17]? If we haven't the brains, why can't we borrow some from the U.N. and put this problem where it belongs, since we no longer seem to be responsible for our actions...
Similarly, Dempsey-Tegeler arranged last March to borrow $7,000,000 from Denver Oilman John McC. King. The loan consisted of stock in King Resources Co., which explores and develops oil and gas prospects. As those shares plummeted, Dempsey-Tegeler fell apart. Last week John King was also in financial trouble, and he resigned as chairman of both King Resources and the Colorado Corp...
Fearing thermal and radioactive pollution from a huge nuclear power plant in Monticello, Minn., conservationists have filed a lawsuit against state agencies and Northern States Power Co. to bar the plant's operations. Result: the Minneapolis-St. Paul area has to borrow power from neighboring utilities. In Kalamazoo, Mich., another nuke is stalled pending consideration of the ecological effects of the plant's discharge of hot water into Lake Michigan. Until pollution-free fuels or new generating techniques can create energy without contaminating the environment, such conflicts are likely to spread across the nation...
...ladler for a deep stir so they would not get only flavored water. Women began appearing on that once all-male mode of transport, the freight car. A petty thief, lacking a gun for a sudden job, knew that corruption was so rampant that he could borrow the needed weapon from a cop on patrol. At farm foreclosure sales, friends would gather, bid 10? for every item, scare others out of bidding more, then give everything back to the farmer. And in his mother's hotel, Terkel, then in his teens, sensed that the Depression...