Word: lende
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Huntington's candidacy has been vigorously opposed by a group of Academy members led by Yale Professor of Mathematics Serge Lang. These Academy members have said that Huntington's work is pseudo-scientific and uses the illusion of science to lend credence to what are merely his own political opinions...
Barnes' tenure was relatively brief but superheated. After becoming chairman in 1981, the Harvard-educated lawyer pumped Mellon loans to energy companies in the Southwest and beefed up its real estate portfolio in Dallas and other oil towns. The lending and real estate business foundered along with OPEC: energy-related loans now account for more than half of Mellon's $1.45 billion in write-offs and nonperforming assets. Mellon also has $178 million in repossessed properties, a sixfold increase from what it owned in late 1984. Bad loans to Mexico and Brazil further crimped the bank's strained resources...
Stark need and the Communist insurgency have given Aquino a severe challenge on two fronts: achieving both economic recovery and political stability. Economically, Aquino has fought back with, among other things, an adjustment program negotiated last October with the International Monetary Fund. The IMF promised to lend the Philippines roughly $330 million while insisting on limitations to monetary growth and fiscal restraint along with basic changes in the country's protectionist economy...
...National Congress (ANC). A woman from COMADRES, a group of relatives of victims of Salvadoran death-squads, will join them, and so will a student activist leader from Berkeley. Religious and labor leaders have prominent places in the program, and rumors abound that Jackson Browne and Bruce Springsteen may lend their support...
...member of the Cambridge-El Salvador Sister City Project, testified that he and Susan Freireich would join a group leaving Thursday to seek the release of 11 villagers who have been arrested by Salvadoran police. Grosser said the council's endorsement would "ensure our safety on this trip" and lend force to their requests...