Word: lende
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...irreconcilable differences in the answers to some of the most pressing security issues facing the West: What are its true interests in dealing with a Communist system that is spectacularly failing on a domestic level but has turned into a military power equal to the U.S.? Should the West lend a helping hand in the economic development of the Soviet bloc in hopes of influencing political reform behind the Iron Curtain, or should it, on the contrary, use its economic leverage to try to bring the Soviet system to its knees? Either way, is there any reason to believe that...
...gone neoconservative and dyed in-the-wool liberal critics aren't happy. Big deal. No one-ever read White's quadrennial bestsellers because they agreed with his politics. America snapped up the Making of the President series, and In Search of History because of White's ability to lend dreary presidential races the excitement of a bullfight or a boxing match...
Congress created the Federal Reserve in 1913 after a rash of financial panics showed the need for a central body to regulate the money supply and lend funds to banks caught short of cash. With the Treasury Secretary as chairman, the board at first was almost an arm of the White House...
...automatic recommendation many would make--that the alarmed family seek a loan--highlights for Lyman the problem of the "lend 'em $5,000 bucks and send 'em out the door approach," a strategy graduate students particularly rely on. "Whether a student can borrow an infinite amount of money is a real problem," Lyman says...
...Corporation's expressed devotion to precedent can also be a double-edged sword. Students were baffled earlier this year when it seemed as if the Corporation was trying to go back on the University's ban on doing business with banks which lend money to the South African government after it had sold $50 millions worth of certificates in Citibank which had made an ostensibly humanitarian loan to the apartheid regime...