Word: lende
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American President to lend legitimacy to the Marcos regime by paying it a state visit would be an insult to the dignity and values of the American and Filipino people. The notion that the use of the Philippine bases is dependent on the good will of President Marcos is as wrongheaded as the thought that it is in the American interest to support and strengthen his regime. American security is not enhanced thereby; injustice...
...question of foreign loans to South African borrowers has affected a number of U.S. banks. While no major bank has gone as far as the activists would like and adopted a policy eschewing all South African loans, several have gone part of the way by formally agreeing not to lend to the South African government and its public corporations. Others are de facto following the same policy. Significantly, U.S. banks have not publicly singled out the government of any other foreign country in a similar fashion. These new lending policies have contributed to the fact that U.S. bank loans...
...vital to world financial stability mainly because it serves as a catalyst for private lending. The agency makes loans only to countries that agree to launch programs to restore their economic health. Once such measures are adopted, commercial banks are usually willing to lend more to the troubled countries. Earlier this year, for example, Mexico was able to get $5 billion in new credit from private banks only after it agreed to cut public spending and received a $3.8 billion commitment from...
...Kissinger, who in recent months has become a regular informal consultant to Clark, the appointment presented a chance to return to a position of official power. For the Reagan Administration, which has often been criticized for lacking depth in international affairs, tapping Kissinger was a way to lend credibility to foundering aspects of its foreign policy. But the choice was nonetheless surprising. The commission was formed in part to dampen domestic controversy, and Kissinger is, above all, a highly controversial figure. Indeed, in his unsuccessful 1976 primary campaign against President Gerald Ford, Reagan launched a sustained series of attacks...
Quinn said that such a series of maneuver--probably totalling four shifts in all--could as lend the work at the Quad through as less as the beginning of 1988, three years beyond the currently scheduled completion of the entire House renovation program...