Word: lende
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Some courses don't lend themselves well to the case study method," says Fran Rinaldi, assistant director of Stanford's program. Rinaldi cites international economics and business-government relations as areas which need a more formal treatment...
...bulls, it turned out, were only taking a breather. On Thursday the interest rate on federal funds, which are reserves that banks lend to one another overnight, fell as low as 9.5% from an average of 10.27% the day before. The financial markets took this drop as a sign that the Federal Reserve Board, which influences the funds rate through the amount of money it supplies the banking system, was easing monetary policy and would allow the cost of credit to fall. That plus the good news about oil caused bond prices to surge and the stock market to stampede...
...separate report from the Federal Reserve Board seemed to lend support for Walter Mondale's contention that the U.S might be moving into a recession. It showed that industrial production declined .6% in September, falling for the first time since the last recession ended in November 1982. Economist James Tobin of Yale University warned that the Federal Reserve should be concerned about a new downturn. Levy Economic Forecasts of Chappaqua, N.Y., proclaimed that the recession was already here...
...trouble with John le Carré's 1983 novel, The Little Drummer Girl, was that it required more than 400 pages of densely detailed writing to lend credence to an improbable plot that a writer less impressed by his own critical repute might have skipped through in about half that length. The trouble with the movie version of this tale is that it is entirely, and rather glumly, preoccupied with that labyrinthine plot. There is no time left in the film for those observations about character, setting and political background that at least gave the original fiction the force...
...were the hit of Milan. Designers sent insufficiently willowy models right back to the agency and ordered up more and longer legs. Almost every show had minis: Karl Lagerfeld, designing the Fendi collection, made them up in a witchy little F print of his own devising that managed to lend the house's ubiquitous initial some charm. Sexy Gianni Versace went straight to the point and crafted brief siren suits. At Complice, Claude Montana did seemingly endless variations on the mini theme in bold red leather. Nor is Milan alone in hiking skirts. Preview releases from Seventh Avenue make...