Word: lend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remaining tenants have been through a physically and emotionally draining fight with the Goliath of the Square's landlords. They seemingly had a strong case to present to the rent board, and yet it was not solid enough to give them confidence that the rent board would lend its support to the battle. Now the tenants are tired--a perfect state of mind, from Harvard's point of view. Little will may be left to keep them to their original demands of Harvard admitting guilt for keeping units off the market intentionally, and guaranteeing to modify its treatment...
...around them people will then act to make things better, of maybe as important, not act to make things worse. That if they know that is going on in Vietnam, in Selma, in EI Salvador, they will act their bodies to the side the very least, they won't lend their brains and their bodies to the side that has caused the problems in the first place. That if they know about the recklessness of corporations they'll stay away from them. That forecast is optimistic. Many will decide exactly the opposite: if the world is breaking apart they...
...said. "The hobos, for example, are better fed than they have ever been." Other U.S. officials were equally astute. Said Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon in 1930: "I see nothing in the present situation that is either menacing or warrants pessimism." (Joke of the day: Hoover asks Mellon, "Can you lend me a nickel to call a friend?" Mellon answers, "Here's a dime. Call all of them...
...prolixity and often dilute quality at the lower end of Pollock's oeuvre. But it is a concentrated and moving show, probably the last of its kind to be seen in Europe or America. "Major" Pollocks are so expensive and fragile that their owners do not want to lend them, and museums find it hard to insure them...
Eliminating the current free-choice policy will not make the Houses indistinguishable; differences in location, facilities, personnel and the individuals living there at any given time will lend each a unique but not static personality. At the same time, diversity within the Houses will afford some hope of increased contact among groups that all too often insultate themselves. It is that type of diversity--that which encourages intergroup mingling and not separatism--that the College should encourage...