Word: lend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coordinating student campaigners through campus centers (like those sponsored by the Princeton-based Movement for a New Congress), and 2) granting pre-election recesses to allow students and faculty to work in campaigns. After consulting the IRS, the American Council on Education has issued cautious guidelines. Colleges that lend a substantial portion of their facilities to groups backing specific candidates or legislation may compromise their legal status as educational institutions and forfeit their exemption from local property taxes and federal taxes on endowment income. This would also cancel their contributors' right to deduct gifts from their tax returns. Also...
...visits to the birthplace are one of Johnson's few known breaks from full-time ranching. His well-known restless energy has been channeled into the raising of chickens for egg production, laying irrigation pipe-sometimes wading waist-deep into the Pedernales to lend a hand-racing across his 330-acre spread in a radio car and barking orders about sprinklers and feed for cattle. Ranch hands respond to his call the way White House staffers once did. The former Chief Executive energetically briefs his guests not on foreign policy but on livestock prices and the weather...
...world's greatest soccer player, Brazil's national hero and one of the highest-paid professional athletes ($152,000 in salary), Pele could afford to be magnanimous. He would be happy, he said, to lend some parts of his uniform to an upcoming soccer exhibit in London. On second thought, though, no sense in taking chances with garments of such inestimable symbolic value. Pele insisted they would have to insure them...
...common sense would know that the 15 of us are much too busy to read the manuscripts the students send in." And Cerf again, on mail-order selling in general: "The crux of it is a very hard sales pitch, an appeal to the gullible." Then why does he lend his name to the school's hard-sell proposition? "Frankly, if you must know, I'm an awful ham -I love to see my name in the papers...
...emissary to Cairo to wangle a truly representative selection for a tour of the U.S. Rathbone got the cooperation of the Metropolitan in New York and later the Los Angeles County Museum to share the huge expenses of shipment and insurance. Last year Egyptian authorities finally agreed to lend 43 pieces. It would have been the greatest Egyptian show ever...