Word: lend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...25th anniversary celebration for his Paris nightspot, the Crazy Horse Saloon. On hand was Choreographer George Balanchine, who came to France to watch his Ravel ballets at the Paris Opera. Said the appreciative Balanchine after surveying the legwork of Bernardin's 18 dancing show girls: "You ought to lend some of your ideas to the opera...
...losses involved specialized or technical schools, most of them privately owned and operated for profit. Such schools have burgeoned since FISL began, in large part because the Office of Education of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, which administers FISL, has allowed many of them to lend to their students directly. Although many of these "proprietary" schools do a valuable job of educating, others victimize both their students and the Government. In too many cases, a high-pressure salesman working on a commission basis recruits students from low-income backgrounds by offering career-improving courses to be financed...
...SPRING OF 1971, the Faculty changed the method of selecting student members for the CRR in the hope of finding students to serve on it. But twice that spring in University-wide referenda, students voted to boycott the CRR, temporarily foiling the Faculty's attempt to lend legitimacy to the CRR through student participation. In 1973, there was an attempt to nominate students for the CRR from Leverett House, but that failed, leaving the boycott intact...
UNION REPRESENTATION elections have been held for just over 35,000 farmworkers in California under a new state law which went into effect August 28. The results lend strong support to the contention that the purpose of Cesar Chavez's decade-long boycotts was to force farmworkers into the UFW who didn't want to join...
...municipalities, forcing them to cut services and spending and hike taxes, and drastically harm the economy. A New York bankruptcy would also wipe out much of the value of $2 billion worth of city securities held by banks round the country. Though the Federal Reserve has pledged to lend the banks enough money to keep them from closing, they might have to curtail their lending to business. Much of the remaining $11.5 billion in city securities is held by individuals, who would suffer serious losses of principal and interest and thus have their buying power reduced...