Word: lende
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Coupled with the knowledge that Washington turns the other cheek to the training of counter-revolutionaries in Florida, direct U.S. efforts to tumble the government in Managua lend credibility to the Sandinistas' claim that the recent Nicaraguan military build-up is for defensive purposes. They also unnecessarily heighten tension in a region that has more than enough to spare...
...special worry is that, after years of inflation, recurrent recessions and punishingly high interest rates, some of the nation's biggest corporations are desperately short of cash. A prolonged recession could push several over the line into bankruptcy, possibly endangering the solvency of the financial institutions that lend to them and sending shock waves through the economy. Says Arthur Soter, a bank analyst at Morgan Stanley & Co.: "We are reaching a point where you could have serious cash-flow problems for some airlines, trucking and real estate firms, and heavy equipment manufacturers...
...prohibition, Kissinger notes, "our principal bargaining leverage was lost." As a result, an American proposal for a cease-fire in Cambodia was aborted-the Khmer Rouge had no need to negotiate for something that had already been handed to them by Congress-and Chou Enlai, who had agreed to lend China's weight to the proposal, was seriously embarrassed. The Chinese, says Kissinger, were "no longer sure of how steady or reliable a partner we would prove to be." Nonetheless, on Nov. 12, Mao again summoned Kissinger, along with two American colleagues and Chou, to a meeting...
...constitutional convention gathered in October to produce a final constitution which would be given to the student body for approval This convention, of which I was the chair, was composed of members elected from each House and the Freshman Yard, and six members of the defunct constitution committee to lend "expert" advice...
There seems no reason why that logic should not apply at Harvard. Certainly a more diverse Corporation could help improve the University's notoriously spotty record of hiring women and minority faculty and lend a more enlightened ear to issues than its homogeneity currently permits. Quite conceivably, a Corporation including minorities would have been more receptive to student demands for divestiture of investments tied to the apartheid-ruled regime of South Africa...