Word: lende
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...interest. Baseball is sounder for a variety of reasons. It demands more skill than physical force, the season is much longer, the players have the strongest collective bargaining agreement in sports, the teams mercifully have avoided all but the barest of playoff series, and the sport somehow does not lend itself to betting...
...play's design--in set, costumes and lighting--would lend itself to superbly elegant still shots. But technical style, like a play's script, is only a platform for the actors to start from. Design is unquestionably a difficult play--neither the situations nor the characters attempt to be real. Nor is the fantasy an inherently charming one. Only a really elegant style could have made these characters fit for a drawing room--or a two-hour comedy...
Charrier admits that his excavation of the artifacts lost some of the information professional archeologists could have acquired from the site. But he defends himself by pointing out that he did preserve the collection as a whole, and did lend it to Harvard for a scholarly study...
Representatives cited renovations, sexual harassment, and the Core Curriculum as issues they wanted to see addressed by the council this year. Several representatives said a recently publicized harassment case against a professor in the Government Department will lend urgency to that issue...
Harvard and Yale got into stock lending early, more than 10 years ago, but word soon got out. "It used to be a very good business," says Cabot, but now, with scores of endowment funds willing to lend out their stocks, brokerage houses are paying less. In the past Harvard made as much as $4 million a year in the program; this year, Cabot says it will be less than $500,000. "There may well be a time when a lot of institutions get out of it, and the margins will return," he adds, explaining why the University is keeping...