Desperate for cash, it recently borrowed $3 million -- at an annual interest rate of 100percentt.
The company is seeking a sale-leaseback of a portion of its headquarters building, it is trying to sell its investment in the Boston Red Sox and it recently borrowed $250 million from the Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim Helú, an investor in the company.
I bought The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz so I could fit in at literary parties, but there it sits on my shelf while I dig into Boys on the Bus by Timonthy Crouse - recently borrowed and barely put down since then.
They recently borrowed $40 million from Bank of America.
From Egyptian Arabic, English has recently borrowed the term loofah (also spelled luffa).
Ms. Hopper also recently borrowed $2,000 from an old friend to pay for medication.
Francis Dosne, a retired Nestlé executive, said he had recently borrowed and returned Warren Buffett's biography.
The Department of Defense recently borrowed seventeen computer-literate Arabic speakers from the N.Y.P.D. to assist its intelligence arm.
It has plenty of cash, having recently borrowed $8 billion from banks at an interest rate of roughly 4 percent.
Southampton, on the East End of Long Island, recently borrowed a fifth of its pension bill — $1.2 million of $6 million — by decision of the town board.
