Word: lende
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Glee Club had already agreed to record the song when Yale University president A. Bartlett Giamatti stepped in. He forbade the enterprise entirely. In a statement released last week. Giamatti explained that the Glee Club represented the University and added. "The University does not take sides or lend its name to one political cause or another, no matter how compelling that cause...
...Veritas," it says on the seal of Yale University. "Light and Truth." By taking a seemingly uncharacteristic position, Giamatti reminds us that a university must not only lend its support to worthy issues, but also show concern for the way that support will be used...
...political process. It tends to confine political office to candidates who are either independently wealthy or willing to sell their votes to the proliferating political action committees (PACs) of special-interest groups. These two types often are really one. It has become standard procedure for a rich candidate to lend huge sums to his campaign from his personal fortune, then stage fund-raising parties after the election at which he solicits funds from PACS to repay himself. Says Edward Roeder, compiler of a directory, PACs Americana: "Many Senate seats have been bought but not yet paid for. We will...
...introductory remarks yesterday, it is very true that "Common Ground" does not present "a full spectrum of opinions" on these issues. It is not clear, however, how that fact affects the event's legitimacy. A series of angry, polemical arguments presenting extremist views would not, in our opinion, lend itself to the atmosphere of conciliation and compromise that we hoped to create in this conference. Our aim was education through discussion, not point-counterpoint. This does not mean that our speakers are "homogeneous": every MEEP organizational meeting was characterized by heated debate over the choice of speakers, and the ultimate...
Mail-order magnates are well aware of customers' cravings for extraordinary items and use them to lend a glamorous cachet to listings of tableware and nightgowns. Neiman-Marcus, for instance, has offered everything from his-and-her airplanes to a paleontological safari in Utah to baby Asian elephants. Sakowitz, its Texas rival, has presented such opulent entries as a bathtub full of diamonds, a chateau in a French wine district and a personalized offshore oil rig. This year proves to be reliably rich in the wish books...