Word: lend
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...DEAD, BUT ITS NUCLEAR MENace lives on -- not so much now in missiles as in about 60 unsafe power plants. Officials of the Group of Seven major industrial countries -- all cold war enemies of the ex-communists -- have agreed in principle to set up a fund that would lend money to nations of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union to fix up their nuclear dinosaurs. The U.S. and Japan overcame their skepticism about multilateral rather than bilateral funding, and will make small initial contributions. Though the fund is eventually supposed to total $700 million, it will start with...
After all, it worked for Au Bon Pain; never underestimate the legitimacy that a simple French moniker can lend to the most shamelessly overpriced fast-food freak show. The greatest irony of all is that the Cambridge City Council smugly thinks it's done its part to help out the homeless by preventing ABP from ejecting its regular horde of homeless patrons. It seems to me a safe, clean place to live might be more important than the right to freeze to death after munching an overpriced baguette...
...report is neither an indictment nor a complete vindication of Schulman's conduct as president. There is enough in its 109 pages to lend itself to varied interpretation...
...with an offbeat pattern can lend sophistication to a conventional and lifeless gray men's suit, just as a bow tie can add a touch of individual pizzazz...
...Army general (Michael Gambon) who wants to convert the plant to military-weapons production. Both are predictable types. Their employees are so sweetly innocent one longs for Hoffa's Teamsters to come in and give them mean lessons. But everyone's main function is to trigger special effects and lend scale to production designer Ferdinando Scarfiotti's overweening sets, which sometimes quote wittily from the modernist tradition (Dada, etc.) but also overuse the pachyderm motif at the heavy heart of this disastrously miscalculated movie...