Word: lende
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pierce's bitterness over his lot in life helps make him its prisoner. His quick temper has got him fired from jobs that might have enabled him to buy his boat and independence. Banks will not lend him money. He has no telephone at home because he ripped it out of the wall during a fit of anger. He poaches clams at a neighboring bird sanctuary, more out of orneriness than hope of profit. And, to complicate his existence still further, he has fallen into a love affair with Elsie Buttrick, the local game and fish warden...
...inspire but not to incite" during his two-day visit. Yet last week in an interview with Polish journalists, he suggested that the Soviets unilaterally withdraw their 40,000 troops stationed on Polish soil; Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev called the idea "propaganda." Bush has vaguer ideas about how to lend Poland more practical help, but aides warn that any U.S. plan won't be accompanied by a "potful of money...
Many conservationists are worried that Japan will try to hide its financing of projects that damage the environment. One method would be to make unrestricted loans to foreign banks. The banks could then lend money to controversial projects, but Japan would not be blamed. One fear is that Japan will use such "two-step" loans to fund a major road that would open up the western Amazon to logging. Says Alex Hittle, international coordinator of | Friends of the Earth, U.S.: "It's in general loans that disturbing things might be lurking...
...that's where you or I might come in. You or I might look at this and say gee, bankruptcy or no, the $300,000 house supports a $200,000 first mortgage. You might not want to lend that kind of money -- if you have that kind of money -- at 11% for 30 years. But how about lending it at 14% for two years, backed by a first mortgage and the borrower's personal guarantee? With the borrower paying all closing costs? And perhaps with even a point or two thrown in for good measure...
...working couples struggle to meet their family responsibilities, they are asking corporate America to lend a hand. Last week AT&T agreed to one of the largest expansions of family benefits ever achieved in labor negotiations. Under a three-year contract covering 160,000 members of its communications and electrical unions, AT&T will increase from six months to one year the parental leave it offers mothers and fathers of newborns. The company will also permit such leaves for the care of ailing relatives...