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A pastiche novel that borrows from myriad sources without ever quite knowing how to meld those borrowings into something new, Dave Eggers's new book, "You Shall Know Our Velocity," feels like a crafts-fair project -- bits and pieces of found and homemade objects stuck together, sometimes artfully, sometimes not, into a messy, unconvincing assemblage.

This work was purportedly copied and interpreted in later works, which in turn became the source of borrowings into the Siberian Chronicles.

It's not derivative but layered, as if Ridley has alighted magpie-like on things that interest him, and turned all his pretty borrowings into something strange and terrifying.

The English and French elements in the pidgin's lexicon (vocabulary) seem to be primarily borrowings into Chinook Jargon after it had become widely adopted as the lingua franca for the fur trade.

In the latter, they are provided when a shareholder believes there is little to no chance that the debt will be defaulted on; in the former, they are provided irrespective of the likelihood of repayment, effectively kicking the borrowings into the long grass.

The hedge fund industry is decimated — its model of flipping cheap borrowings into leveraged bets around the world has blown up — and one desperate, even contrite, former master of the universe has just sold a Rauschenberg for $9 million less than he paid in 2004.

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The Shakespeare purists miss the point about his exuberant ragbag of borrowings thrown into the alchemical furnace of his mind and lifted out transformed.

Indo-Aryan languages, for example, penetrated deep into Southeast Asia; lexical borrowings in Indonesia, Thailand, and other areas and Sanskrit texts in Cambodia reflect this influence.

But these borrowings are absorbed into the basic Irish-dance vocabulary.

Thus, borrowings from Visigothic into Spanish and Portuguese are less frequent, though still not inconsiderable; some (such as estaca 'stake,' brotar 'to bud') are common to all the languages of the Iberian Peninsula.

Some firms may find that the rise in their debt ratios puts them in breach of covenants on their existing borrowings, pushing them into serious difficulties.However, the SEC and other proponents of reform also have some good arguments.

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