Word: lend
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...long the S&L was locked into a constant seesaw battle with regulators. Says a former Silverado executive: "They began playing musical chairs with their auditors, and all kinds of things were going on between the federal regulators and management because of the dubious appraisals on property. Silverado would lend a developer $10 million, plus the money he needed to pay the interest on the loan, and then when the developer came back in a year after repaying nothing, they would roll the whole loan over and give him more money on top to pay new fees and interest. When...
There is a growing consensus that to send such things around the world, or even to move them at all, verges on the irresponsible. Yet museums still feel obliged to lend paintings as hostages to others to ensure reciprocal loans. Only this can explain, for instance, why the National Gallery refused to move its Feast of the Gods (the figures by Bellini, the deep and magically sonorous landscape background by his apprentice Titian) a few city blocks to the Phillips Collection's "Pastoral Landscape" show in 1988, whose centerpiece it should have been, but had no compunction about flying...
...weeks ago, Barry's friend and political ally Jesse Jackson began publicly urging a compromise, in which all but a minor charge against Barry would be dropped in exchange for his resignation. But Stephens has not accepted the offer, perhaps out of concern that such a deal would lend credence to Barry's claim that the case was a racially motivated effort to "politically lynch" a prominent black official. Stephens reportedly continues to insist that Barry plead guilty to at least one felony count, which would probably mean some time in jail...
Gypsy wagons rolling down a main road, plows pulled by oxen, and other Bruegelesque scenes lend charm to Romania, Hungary and the rest of the East bloc. But be prepared for inconveniences and overcrowding...
...live-action comic-strip movie with a "super-real" feel. The style would be "going to the edge and not falling off." A 1930s city would come to life, not on location, where reality must be counterfeited, but through mattes, combining live action with painted backdrops, which would lend a "magical" air and keep the budget at a bearable $30 million. The final decision was radical: to shoot the picture in seven primary and secondary colors that would define the characters and story while adding a unique visual humor. "Love it or hate it," Disney movie boss Jeffrey Katzenberg kept...