On October 30th, with oil prices having fallen by more than half, he told a television reporter that the boom he had foreseen in wind would be "put off", due to the unexpected fall in the price of fossil fuels and the sudden difficulty of borrowing money.Mr Pickens is not the only clean-tech investor caught out by the credit crunch.
Quoted in discussion of the difficulty in borrowing works of art for exhibits.
By Janet Flanner The New Yorker, April 18 , 1970P. 128 Quoted in discussion of the difficulty in borrowing works of art for exhibits.
The saga of the Winshaw dynasty was a hit both in Britain and overseas – despite the difficulty of translating the title (borrowed from a 60s comedy-horror film).
Reymond thus both followed Haeckel and his readers in thematizing the difficulty of the esoteric science, and borrowed Straubinger's idiom to communicate some embryology:> Working up an appetite, Straubinger would not have minded hearing more over some spare ribs, "because you don't never know what education will be good for", but Kowalevsky sends him away hungry.
But the biggest deterrent to offshore borrowing is the difficulty of getting the money back onshore again.
It is a measure of the difficulty of organizing this exhibition that objects were borrowed not only from collections in the Netherlands, France, Germany, Belgium and the United States, but also from across England, including cathedrals, churches, Oxford and Cambridge colleges and museums.
The court battle also shows the difficulty of following through with the complex municipal borrowing deals that came into vogue about a decade ago, involving both securities, like bonds, and derivatives, like interest-rate swaps.
Says Cuvva founder Freddy Macnamara in a statement: "It was ridiculous that I couldn't borrow a car for an hour, because of the difficulty of getting short-term cover.
