Word: lend
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Money: Since the republics are not in fact members, the IMF will not be able to lend directly to them. Instead, it must rely on western governments to do so. At the same time, preparations for full membership should move forward...A plausible financial package to back the Russian programme should be set as follows: Russia will need a stabilisation fund of around $5 billion to help peg the newly convertible rouble...In addition, Russia should receive in 1992 around $6 billion of general balance-of-payments support, and another $6 billion of food...
...Moonbeam" is not as flaky as the press would have you think. Beneath the impassioned cries for revolution lies a practical approach to government: He articulates coherent energy policy ideas and supports his arguments about defense spending with statistics. Behind his eloquent calls for reform are serious facts that lend credence to his proposals...
...reasons these events and figures attract so much attention is that they lend themselves to all sorts of gossipy and hand-wringing speculation. But this glee is so far from the heart and the truth of these occurrences. People like Walter Goodman focus so much on the "glamour" of the event that the agony of the alleged victim is completely passed over...
...Involving the president helps to lend visibility to the issue," Winsten said...
Since joining the resistance to the putsch attempt in August, Shevardnadze has been watching from the sidelines as the power of the central government has drained away to the ascendant republics. His decision to rejoin Mikhail Gorbachev is likely to lend credibility to the Soviet President's efforts to reconstruct a union and to solicit Western aid for the ailing economy...