Word: lende
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years of flirting with fiction, taking the truth and transforming it into social fairy tales, but always publishing under the realistically lucid umbrella of fact. The result of years with a notebook out there in the jungles of real life, this novel--Bonfire of the Vanities--purports to lend everything a purpose and win the writer a one-way ticket through the annals of literary history. Tom Wolfe has published his first Novel...
...proceedings are as witty as the toys he builds for True, and the denouement of the whole tale is gratifying. But it is constant, often startling, shifts in the film's emotional tone, the economy of its writing and its lively movement through the - bleak London landscape that lend it true distinction...
...borrow $3 million. The bankers, eager for business, approved the loan in 48 hours, Conlan's attorneys say. Yet two years later, when Wells Fargo decided that losses from Conlan's 1,505-acre farm exceeded the limit in the loan contract, the bank refused to lend him more money and grabbed $120,000 from another of his accounts to pay off the debt. Those moves forced him into bankruptcy, his attorneys say. So the farmer sued, and last year a jury ordered Wells Fargo to pay him $60 million in damages (later reduced to $35 million...
...experiences dealing with students' reactions to controversial subject matter closely parallel those of many other professors who teach in non-traditional disciplines. Interviews with instructors this week revealed that the teaching of sensitive issues in the college classroom-and the question of student input--are problems that do not lend themselves to a single solution...
...clarify that PBH does depend on any support Harvard can lend. Without the Harvard Development office showing us how to fundraise, giving us a list of alumni, and offering the use of telephones, we would never have been able to bring our alumni drive from 15,000 in the past years to 38,000 last year. Without President Bok's active support in attending Endowment events and encouraging Harvard alumni to give to PBH, our endowment campaign would not have been as successful...