Word: lend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...small band of protesters outside the hotel charged that the convention was nothing more than an attempt to lend respectability to Moon's cause. Their suspicion is well-founded...
...Treasury and the Federal Reserve Board will take to uphold the greenback. The key moves: 1) raising the federal discount rate by a full point to a record 9.5%, the sharpest jump in 45 years; 2) reducing by $3 billion the funds that U.S. banks have available to lend; 3) amassing $30 billion in foreign currencies, nearly all borrowed, to support dollar prices on foreign exchanges; 4) greatly increasing U.S. sales of gold...
...really care, there is a state auditor. Essentially, the state auditor should be a watchdog over government in the Commonwealth. But the rash of public service scandals in the State House does not lend much credibility to the state auditor these days...
...struggling families indistinguishable from Clifford Odets or Arthur Miller characters. But by the '40s he had found his own voice, a Shavian mix of irony and poignance. Since then the supple prose has been, like Cheever's, dominated by sexual themes and by the attempt to lend common experiences and ordinary people a secular grace...
Investors' overriding worry, however, is not the dollar but interest rates. Last week the Federal Reserve Board acted to push the "Fed funds" rate at which banks lend to one another to nearly 9%, a level that Economist Okun believes-almost guarantees recession by making borrowing more expensive. Nor is there much hope that the rises in loan charges will stop. The Federal Reserve has been jacking up interest rates largely in order to contain an inflationary increase in the U.S. money supply, but so far it has failed. Money supply during the past month has shot...