Word: lend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Which leaves Steven Kelman's Push Comes To Shove: The Escalation of Student Protest (Houghton Mifflin, $5.95, paper $2.95). (Does a colon in the title lend an air of legitimacy to an undergraduate's first published writings?) Despite, or perhaps because of, one of the nastiest reviews the CRIMSON has ever written, Shove is completely sold out at the Coop. President Pusey reportedly distributes copies to his friends. The book has been heralded across the country as at last printing the truth about the hypocrisy of student radicals. Though the core of Kelman's analysis of radical actions at Harvard...
...would do this by sowing doubtsand suspicions. They hope then to attract sufficient support to be able to enforce demands on those whom they malign and designate as the enemy, using the old means of distortion, accusation, guilt imputed by association, and so on. And they thrive as people lend them credence...
...struggle by Investors Overseas Services to shore up its finances, the most puzzling phenomenon has been the proffered help of a little-known New Jersey manufacturer, International Controls Corp. It seemed odd that I.C.C. should be anxious to lend up to $15 million to the troubled mutual-fund complex despite opposition by I.O.S.'s temporarily ousted founder, Bernie Cornfeld. After all, European bankers from the Rothschilds on down had sidestepped urgent invitations to come to the rescue. Yet this week I.C.C. President Robert L. Vesco is due in Geneva to sign the loan papers. "Our motive is simple...
...sculpture? Well, nothing that Michelangelo would recognize as such. But Smith's sculptures lend themselves to both welding and telephoning. Smith's instructions were: "Build me a six-foot cube of quarter-inch hot-rolled steel, with diagonal internal cross bracing." Industrial complied, and over the next years produced a dozen pieces for Smith, following his phone instructions or alternatively, blueprints or models...
...funds, have been taking in abundant new cash. Total time deposits at commercial banks have risen 21% in the past five months, to $211.5 billion. The rise has accelerated since Washington in June permitted the banks to pay any rate they wished on large time deposits. The banks can lend more of the money too-directly or through the bond market-because the Federal Reserve Board has also reduced the proportion that they must keep in reserve. S and Ls took in $508 million of deposits in July, a record for the month. As a result, they were able...