Word: lend
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will speak for us. We need to find a voice that will make the tough sacrifices today to insure our solvency and stability tomorrow. We need to find a voice that will not needlessly scare seniors and political action committees. We need to find a voice that will not lend itself to demagoguery and the protection of a rapidly deteriorating status quo. We need to find a voice that will make the courageous and potentially unpopular decisions now to preserve the future of this nation...
...Quad. At around three o'clock in the afternoon--in the early hours of the project--a Gargantuan snow stump formed in front of Cabot dining hall. It became so tall that one of the seniors mounted the stump and some others, who had come out to lend a hand, hoisted buckets of snow up to him while he continued to build on top. The senior had to sit on the stump for over four hours, and was frostbitten later that evening. He gently thawed himself out and had dinner, and then he returned to work...
...secure enough in its shared ideals to sustain a memorial to those of its sons who remind us of painful past divisions. Alas, I do not believe that that day has yet arrived, and for that reason, and with great sadness, I have concluded that I can no longer lend my support to the present proposal...
...Senate and now in conference to resolve differences, effectively loans telecom giants immensely valuable new digital bandwidths worth an estimated $70 billion. "This is a big, big corporate welfare project," Safire says Dole told him. "Here we're cutting Medicaid and doing all the painful things while we lend them the spectrum for 12 years. Why shouldn't they pay for it?" Dole and Senate Commerce Committee chairman Larry Pressler have argued that these channels could easily be rented or auctioned. Though powerful media lobbying has squelched that idea on Capitol Hill and in the Administration up to now, TIME...
...HEAT Who will be prince of this soulless city--Robert De Niro's fastidious criminal or Al Pacino's emotionally erratic cop? In the end it doesn't much matter. Their job is to lend familiar dramatic tonalities to Michael Mann's brilliant, jarring, amoral expansion of and meditation on the violent themes running through postmodernist life...