Word: lend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clichè expert. During the tree-climbing episodes, the camera peers up from a low angle, the sun making dainty little flares in the lens. During a confrontation in the drawing room of Pinny's Boston home, a clock ticks loudly, a desperate device intended to lend a little spine to the sponge cake theatrics. As for the unfortunate actors, they are all nonprofessionals and are likely to remain...
...chief stumbling block to such a comprehensive trade agreement has been the Soviet Union's outstanding debt (originally about $11 billion) to the U.S. for Lend-Lease aid during World War II. In last week's discussions the Soviets agreed to a still undisclosed formula for repayment. Settlement of this debt would in turn permit the Export-Import Bank to finance the export of U.S. goods to the Soviet Union. It would also enable the Nixon Administration to ask Congress to grant the Russians most-favored nation trade privileges and credits, an important prerequisite for extensive trade...
...relatively small, family-owned, money-earning companies and then rapidly increase their profits by hiring new managers, paring payrolls and investing in modern machines and plants. His record of successes has brought him into the clubby inner circle of Houston's top businessmen and bankers, who lend him money to make deals. Speaking of his own wealth, Mize says, with some understatement: "I'm not big rich, but I'm damned comfortable...
...Berlin of the '20s. In fact, Munich lacks the intellectual electricity of those brilliant Berlin days. It is also much too innocent. Still, it is the place where most Germans prefer to live, and candid Münchner concede that it is the "other" Germans who »JJJ lend the city much of its style. Only one out of three Münchner is Bavarian-born, while about 15% of the city's population is non-German. It is this cultural blend that finally gives the city its lustig if somewhat spurious cosmopolitanism, an odd chemistry...
...conservative," he says. "Every year, no matter what my income was, I've saved a little and invested a little." Using the same rule, he is putting 25% of the campaign contributions into a trust fund that later will be used to make repayments to people who merely lend money to the campaign. Whether he can keep on feeding the trust fund...