Word: lend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first weeks of this semester don't exactly lend support to the new-mood-on-campus theories. True, most students here are not raising questions about such overarching issues as investments in South Africa, but there does seem to be a glimmering of activism...
...Economists, suggests a third reason: the Fed sets targets for both money-supply growth and interest rates, and it has had great difficulty in choosing goals that are consistent with each other. For example, it may try to keep the "Fed funds" rate -the rate on reserves that banks lend to each other-at around 6%. But it may then find that in order to prevent the rate from rising above that, it has to pump reserves into the banking system, and that increases the money supply more than it intended...
There are scattered efforts to crack down on speculators, though speculation is a symptom rather than a cause of high demand. Some California savings and loans are either refusing to lend mortgage money to would-be buyers who do not intend to live in the houses, or charging them higher interest. A few builders, too, are declining to sell to the buyer who, say, tries to purchase five houses at once...
...thing: a factor that no one in Chile foresaw became a keystone in the opposition's effort to undermine the U.P. No one predicted that American companies would place a silent boycott of Chilean copper after the mines were nationalized, or that American banks would refuse to lend the U.P. money. This quiet ostracism crippled Chile's economy, ending its sources of foreign exchange so that it could not buy the imported goods upon which it had relied. Shortages of luxury and some basic goods--created both by the foreign exchange shortage and by shopkeepers who hoarded the goods...
...more reminiscent of Allen Drury than John Dos Passes, it does present a complex narrative with surprising clarity. The Washington settings, from the Oval Office to the Georgetown salons, lend a nice air of authenticity. So do the script's lavish accounts of such Watergate minutiae as H.R. Haldeman's feud with Rose Mary Woods and Gordon Liddy's call-girl schemes. The heaps of dirt stuffed into the show amply convey the moral squalor...