Word: lend
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They are similar kinds of players, to an extent. Both are experienced (Clark's a three-year starter); both play with power and uncanny consistency; and both lend a quality of quiet, non-rah-rah leadership to the Harvard program. And both are very, very good...
...past month the board has let the rate for Fed funds, uncommitted reserves that banks lend each other, rise from 8⅜% to 8¾%. The Fed funds rate serves as a floor for most other short-term rates. Then last week the board increased the discount rate, the interest charged by the board for loans to member banks, from 8% to 8½%, the highest level ever. A key motive for the Federal Reserve's money moves has been to halt a sharp and inflationary increase in the money supply. Also, the Fed is trying to forestall further...
During the past year, Bulgaria's President Todor Zhivkov has been trying to improve relations with the West. Bulgaria claims that Markov and Simeonov were liquidated by Western intelligence services seeking to besmirch the country's image. To lend credence to that pitch, the regime offered to help British authorities dealing with the case. It was an offer the British just might be able to refuse...
...committee particularly wanted to know whether he had in fact told Cuban Exile Leader José Aleman during a 1963 conversation about Kennedy that "he's going to be hit." This was Aleman's story when questioned by committee investigators in March 1977, and it seemed to lend credence to a theory that mobsters had plotted to kill J.F.K. because of his Administration's crackdown on organized crime. But Aleman, admitting that he was afraid of Trafficante's wrath, remembered differently last week. The mobster, he testified, probably meant only that Kennedy would...
Bureaucracy, corruption, greed, sycophancy and fear lend themselves to comedy of universal scope, and that is why Gogol's The Inspector General, written 143 years ago, was born deathless...