Word: lend
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Rather than lend directly to consumers, Fannie Mae buys mortgages from banks and savings and loan associations, providing them with money to make additional loans. Most lenders stay in line with Fannie Mae's rules so they can sell mortgages to the agency...
...Africa President Ken Kragen has already lined up Tina Turner, Bill Cosby, Pete Rose, Kenny Rogers and Lionel Richie to lend support, and Coca-Cola has signed on as the first sponsor. Kragen hopes to raise some $50 million; in the first days after it was announced, "Hands" raked in some $365,000 in $10 to $35 telephone pledges from enthusiasts around the country who called...
...thing is that the final rounds of presummit briefings, speeches, meetings and (as always) propaganda in Washington and Moscow lend support to both these forecasts. Admittedly, the long-awaited talks next week between the leaders of the world's two nuclear superpowers may never get beyond the boiler plate of Soviet-American relations. If any concrete agreements emerge (cultural exchanges? new consulates?), it might be stretching a point to call them milestones. Indeed, it seems increasingly obvious that the 74-year-old President of the U.S. and the 54-year-old General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party are going...
...under lights at midnight, and liquid nitrogen was used to cool some of the 2.1 million cu. yds. of concrete poured. To allay environmental concerns, engineers built walkways across parts of the canals for the use of cattle and mule deer, and aqueduct sides were deliberately made rough to lend footing for smaller animals that might climb down for a drink. Human visitors are not welcome, but the outstretched ribbon of water has already inspired one desert sportsman to use the canal as a water...
...clapping jams. Barnes’ newfound dance fever forces him to boil down “Forecast Fascist Future,” leaving a heady vocal lament and chugging guitars that amble and reverse but never outstay their welcome. Skipping vocal samples, hysterically-burbling keys, and glitchy drum tracks lend a thrilling dash of claustrophobia to “So Begins Our Alabee” and “The Party’s Crashing Us,” and rubbery synth slouches make the surreal travel diary of “Oslo in the Summertime” ominous...