Word: lende
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...joining the growing nationwide divestiture movement. Harvard can lend its prestige and leadership to the various efforts to affect corporate behavior, and to end South African apartheid. Not only will divestiture contribute toward corporate withdrawal, it will also influence public opinion and governmental action against apartheid here and in South Africa...
...Gunton is a shade too stilted as James, hoping perhaps that physical constriction could simulate advanced middle age. Frank Langella moves with grand assurance across Broadway's Longacre stage, ranging from impish mischief to laceration of soul. As Eleanor and her alter ego, Damon and Kerr lend their roles compelling honesty, and Roxanne Hart is a five-alarm sexual conflagration...
Administration officials were less than pleased by such an order and tabled the motion indefinitely at the latest trustees meeting in April. "To lend the prestige of the institution to one side or the other of such an issue inevitably calls into question the true openness of the university to all points of view," said Princeton President William Bowen, in an open letter shortly after the vote...
...little chance of bringing about a withdrawal of Syrian troops from Lebanon any time soon, it will press ahead in its dealings with Syria, hoping to find out precisely what Assad's price is. At the same time, the Reagan Administration is trying to persuade moderate Arabs to lend a hand. Shultz stopped over in Saudi Arabia to confer with King Fahd, but the Saudis emerged later with a rather grumpy pronouncement that they would not serve as anyone's "tool." Translation: With their characteristic caution, which often borders on gutlessness, the Saudis are waiting for others...
Opponents of the debate argue that such an event would only lend credence to Butz' theory, which they say is ridiculous...