Word: lend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This would be a serious mistake. Although it would lend an air of "justice" to the Board's proceedings, its actual effect would be to limit the Board's flexibility...
...degree of efficiency. Management, of course, is still on the job, as are eleven top editors and reporters who are under personal contract to the paper. There are no longer any time-wasting jurisdictional disputes, because there are no more jurisdictions. Printers help out stereotypers, stereotypers assist pressmen, pressmen lend the mailers a hand. Even reporters are called on to run copy and dirty their hands in the back shop. Hearst himself is in and out of the newsroom and the pressroom, sometimes answering the telephone or composing type. "He seems real happy with the job we're doing...
...coalition's problems in the past - along with scanty funding and the reluctance of Republican congressional leaders to lend their support had been President Johnson's coolness toward it. That may change. Johnson pledged Gardner "the fullest possible co operation" in the effort to find solutions for the cities...
...William Legge, Earl of Dartmouth (1731-1801), was proud to lend his name to a colonial college where classroom supplies, according to local history, consisted of 500 gallons of New England rum. He would be proud as ever today. News reached the Dartmouth campus in Hanover, N.H., that a Canadian Pacific freight train had been derailed in nearby Vermont, capsizing untold thousands of cases of beer. One contingent of Dartmouth Indians made off with nearly 200 cases the first night, and a mob of them got away with 300 more the next night. The liberated liquid is now buried around...
Government itself spun much of the cobweb over British banking. It now insists that U.K. banks limit the total amount of overdrafts by their customers, forces them through other restrictions to lend no more than 55% of their deposits. Fifty years ago, the British Treasury put an end to an earlier wave of bank mergers by threatening legislation to control them. Backed by the Bank of England, that anti-merger doctrine persisted until last spring. Then the Labor government's Prices and Incomes Board called for a new policy, complaining that British banks had grown stodgy and uncompetitive...