Word: lende
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...consumers lack the cash to start an IRA, some banks will lend it to them. Borrowing money to put in the bank sounds paradoxical, yet it makes sense for some people because the interest on the loan is tax deductible. New York City's Chemical Bank, which urges customers to think about an IRA "even if you don't have the money," calculates that a taxpayer in the 35% bracket would pay about $154 in interest on a $2,000 one-year loan but could recover $54 of that by deducting the payment on an itemized federal income tax return...
...Harvard does not realize that what is crucial about American companies in South Africa is not so much how they treat their employees, but what they produce, import, and invest in. What is crucial is the moral and political support they lend to that fossil of history, the most racist country on the face of this earth, South Africa." (Text of the Rev. Jesse Jackson's letter to President Bok, March...
...Mexico. She went there for the first time in 1929, and it never let her go. The windy space, the towering cloud architecture, the wrinkled hills "like a mile of elephants," as she once put it, and the reduction of all organic form to sweeping, compressed epitomes lend her paintings something of the grandeur of 19th century panoramic landscapes...
Cleverly paraphrasing the Immortal Bard's writings, Big Red actors carried signs that read, "Friends, Romans, lend me your earmuffs...
...female Ukrainian poets and the exact date of Kandinsky's first non-expressionist painting, but the same people who I dream of torturing in section are getting two extra weeks to screw up the curve. And you can be fairly sure they're not going to lend me the briefcase full of notes they recopied back home under the Christmas tree...