Word: lend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...departed officials were hardliners, opposed to Sadat's flexible and apparently pacific foreign policy. Their removal could lend powerful impetus to the good will established between Washington and Cairo in the wake of Secretary of State William Rogers' visit two weeks ago. Such a development could only rattle Moscow's foreign ministry-and perhaps Jerusalem's as well...
...things that long John Kenneth Galbraith has been, besides U.S. Ambassador to India, is a trustee of Harvard's Radcliffe College. This may or may not lend weight to the opinions on women he expressed last week to an interviewer (female) for the London Times. "I feel very angry when I think of brilliant, or even interesting women whose minds are wasted on a 'home,' " said Economist Galbraith. "Better have an affair," he says. "It isn't so permanent, and you keep your job." Marital bliss? "The happiest time of anyone's life is just...
...dollars have been pumped out by the U.S. balance of payments deficit-a term that sounds formidably technical but is quite simple in concept. The balance of payments is the grand total of money that Americans and their Government spend, lend and invest abroad, matched against total receipts from foreign sources. A deficit occurs when more money goes out of the U.S. than comes into it. This has happened in seven of the past ten years, and lately the gap between U.S. international spending and income has reached alarming proportions. Last year the U.S. spent a record $10.7 billion more...
...Greenwich Village Follies. They were found subjects as, in a way, was Yvonne De Carlo, who seemed wrong for the role of Phyllis but fit perfectly the rebuilt part of Carlotta, the mantrap. Prince also was the man who finally decided that Alexis Smith as Phyllis would lend the show a permanent radiance that does not acknowledge the movement of the clock...
...SHOOT-We Are Your Children! Its title threatens to give the book away. Its Random House imprint and overlarge type lend weight to the suspicion. So the temptation is simply to abandon the volume, to file it away on the already overcrowded shelf of revolutionary beiles-lettres, to condemn it to be read only by confused, embattled parents in fruitless attempts to discern some sort of message from across the barricades...