5: The pound will have a very rough time as the rest of the world spots our borrowings, both national and personal.
"And, even though we have been constantly reassured that when compared to basket case countries and, even the United States, as a percentage of GDP our borrowings are small, the worry is less the amount and more its steep upward trajectory.
"We only requested a $30m guarantee to support our company's borrowings backed by our large asset base," Mensinck said.
The English language may make our attempts more successful: we have always been unusually receptive to borrowings and neologisms, and our messy relationship between spelling and pronunciation may make English more forgiving of word-forms that don't adhere to conventional norms.
It can help us to improve the quality of our datasets by identifying possible hidden borrowings and erroneous cognate assignments.
In a March 17 regulatory filing, MGM Mirage said it can't "provide assurance that our business will generate sufficient cash flow from operations or that future borrowings will be available to use under our senior credit facility" and expressed doubt regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.
44 45 Nevertheless, our results suggest that increases in large borrowings associated with inpatient healthcare were smaller in AP.
That would be on top of the nearly $6 billion that taxpayers already pay our creditors each year for the often irresponsible borrowings of the past, leaving less money to finance education, health care and other vital services.
A page later, the author notes that "in spite of all the cries of alarm about the blows to our government's credit because of its huge borrowings, the Federal Treasury was able to dispose of government bonds at lower rates of interest than ever before in the country's history".
In connection with that offering, the company made one disclosure that turned out to be prescient: The company's borrowings "are collateralized by the value of our portfolio of mortgage assets," it said.
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.
