Word: lende
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite its sensational elements, the story of the Atlanta murders does not lend itself easily to TV dramatization. Williams, a cocky, self-styled music promoter, hardly fills the bill as either brutal killer or tragic victim. Race was largely defused as an issue in the case: the accused and all the victims, as well as most of Atlanta's top law-enforcement officials, were black. In an effort to turn this troubling story into compelling drama, The Atlanta Child Murders, a two-part CBS movie, takes a startling approach. It strongly implies that Wayne Williams is innocent...
Perhaps Whitemore, who has written works for both stage and screen, has gotten the two genres confused. The premise of Pack of Lies could have created an excellent IV movie. An inspector from Scotland Yard, a Mr. Stewart (Patrick McGoohan), asks a suburban London couple if they might lend their upper floor for a bit of police surveillance work. Bob Jackson (George N. Martin) is willing to defer to the authority of Her Majesty's Representative, but his wife Barbara (Rosemary Harris) is not so sure...
...banks, coming close to default. A day before one deadline, the country was bailed out by loans from several of its debt-ridden neighbors, including Mexico and Brazil. Argentina finally consented to an economic adjustment program overseen by the International Monetary Fund. In return, the IMF agreed to lend the country more than $1.6 billion...
Your analysis of the banking problems between American lenders and Third World borrowers is doubtless admirable, but for me incomplete. It fails to mention Ogden Nash's "One rule which woe betides the banker who fails to heed it,/ Which is you must never lend any money to anybody unless they don't need...
...Force MI-8 helicopters swooped down into the area, while special Indian Army units trained in chemical warfare were airlifted to the local airport and positioned within the 72-acre compound. Around the city, more than 2,000 paramilitary troops and armed police officers were moved in to lend emergency assistance. Meanwhile, thousands of civilians were fleeing the city...