Word: lend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...emerged from just such a process. Says Associate Editor Burton Pines, the Nation section's expert on military affairs and principal author of the story: "It was a natural. The issue was very important, potentially explosive, but not susceptible of a quick fix. It was clear it would lend itself to a symposium treatment." TIME assembled five experts on military manpower problems, who joined 19 TIME staffers for a 5½-hour seminar in the Time-Life Building in New York City. The results not only inevitably helped shape this week's cover story but produced an edited...
...venture a larger question.What risks should a President take in these dangerous times? There is a considerable and growing force within and around the Government that opposes almost any action that entails risk to life or property even in the national interest. Unwittingly, perhaps, but nevertheless effectively, congressional investigations lend weight to these arguments for inaction...
...specialty stores and on the other by discounters like K mart, Sears tried to move uptown. Suddenly, along with familiar bestsellers like Craftsman home tools, Sears emphasized stylish items like Musk Oil aftershave. A merchandiser from New York's Bloomingdale's was hired as fashion director to lend some tony ambience...
Sullivan and other tenants proposed that landlords be allowed increases that would permit increased insulation. Landlords said they would need rent board assurances that they could pass along the costs of the conservation measures before banks would lend money for the moves...
...obtain money from regular savings institutions. One of the most successful was the Rural Electrification Administration, which, beginning in 1936, provided the money that lighted American farm communities. More recently, Dwight Eisenhower's Sputnik- inspired student loan program helped deserving kids go to college. Federal agencies frequently lend money directly on bargain terms. Some Farmers Home Administration credits carry interest rates of 1%. More often, the Government guarantees loans from private sources, such as the proposed $1.5 billion line of credit to Chrysler...