Word: lend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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LIFE INSURERS would lend the money at 5% to 8% interest annually, if the salesman had built up a cash value of $2,000 or more in a policy. Since he would in effect be borrowing his own money, he could repay the principal whenever he felt like it, or not at all. In that case the $2,000 would be deducted from the proceeds paid to his beneficiaries when he died...
What he wants the people in Washington to do is to release classified docu ments, which "prove" that the war was needlessly prolonged in order to lend "credibility" to U.S. protestations of cold war military toughness...
Finally, the presence of students on the CRR would lend a false sense of legitimacy to its inherently unfair proceedings that could, in the minds of many Faculty members, obviate the need for reform. In this situation, where the unified boycott has assumed an important symbolic role in the efforts for reform, any conditions the freshmen panel might set would be nearly meaningless...
...thorn in the Harvard team's side--which insists it is not a Radcliffe group--was the continued absence of star swimmer Maura Costin. Costin, suffering from the back and shoulder problems that kept her in the hospital over intersession, lent moral support from the sidelines, but could not lend physical support in the pool...
Eric Clapton is just too good for his audience's good--it makes him self-indulgently reliant on wild and wonderful improvisations that lend themselves ill to your run-of-the-mill Top 40 song...