Word: lende
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bring the blood pressure of depositors down a few points. Even so, the $1,000 limit sparked bitter complaints from small companies that needed to meet payrolls and from customers who need money for large purchases. A few thrifts affronted consumers with the final insult by offering to lend them money instead, at rates of about...
...improving picture, however, is pockmarked by a potentially serious new problem: management missteps. Deregulation has enabled thrifts to plunge into new, riskier ventures in areas with which many of them are unfamiliar. While thrifts once concentrated on inherently stable home loans, they now lend money for everything from casino construction to consumer vacation trips. In most cases the thrifts simply want to earn enough to account for the competitive rates they are paying to savers. But in a few other cases managers have been overtaken by lofty growth goals and carelessness. Example: federal regulators last month bailed out Beverly Hills...
...anniversary has also been used as a propaganda tool against the West. Soviet victory speeches have minimized the U.S. Lend-Lease program, which provided Moscow with more than $10 billion in food and war materiel between 1941 and 1945. At the same time, the Soviets have portrayed West Germany and the U.S. as Hitler's successors. Soviet commentators have accused the West Germans of "revanchism," or wanting to retake German territories lost in the war, and have condemned Reagan's Bitburg visit as paying homage to the Nazis. The Soviets gloss over Moscow's nonaggression pact with Hitler, which lasted...
...think, or the structures we use to display that thought, or the values we assign to one kind of thought over another? It seems to me deadly. To try to say this thought is innocuous is to insulate the status quo from its effect--it is to lend an unexamined life...
...Corporation's argument for their proposal sounds familiar today: "Mechanical divestment offers Harvard no positive levers to influence banks to lend in a socially responsible manner...It is a costly means of expressing our disapproval...