Word: lende
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Financial as well as political leverage can be used in the cause of preservation. Governments should force local lending institutions to review the environmental consequences of proposed loans. No bank, for example, should be allowed to lend a company money to set up a cattle ranch if the operation would destroy too large a section of an endangered forest...
...other worrisome facts support Israel's skepticism about last week's actions and lend credence to an observation Henry Kissinger has made privately: "If you believe that their real intention is to kill you, it isn't unreasonable to believe that they would...
...very vehemence of these moral attacks against the clubs has precluded a more critical analysis of the issue that would help to elucidate its problems toward a more sensible approach to dealing with it. Mere slandering and name-calling does not lend credibility to the moral high ground on which critics of the final clubs claim to be standing. Quite the opposite, their moralistic approach has, if anything, undermined their attempts to steer the final clubs toward reform and has fallen short of generating intelligent discussion that would, at the very least, foster a better understanding of the final clubs...
...Elkies, it is the fundamental simplicity of math and music which lend them their inherent beauty. A stark, basic principle underpins even the most complex symphony or mathematical application, he says...
...Thompson has attempted too much in directing the film. A more experienced director might have been able to glue the beautifully written vignettes together a bit better. And with more objectivity, another director might not have been forced to salvage a romantic ending with a voice overdub intended to lend credibility...