Word: lende
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...known as the Great Persuader. In late September, with 61 Senators listed as opposing the sale, White House Chief of Staff James Baker and his Legislative Strategy Group took control of the lobbying effort from National Security Adviser Richard Allen. They decided that the issue did not lend itself to the type of televised presidential appeal that worked so well on the economic package. Instead, the Administration opted for one-on-one personal appeals to wavering Senators. The assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in early October helped unsettle many of the sale opponents, and prompted immediate support from Republicans...
...quick look at the Fields of Concentration booklet seems to lend credence to this interpretation. Although History and Literature and Social Studies now have almost exactly the same number of concentrators, Social Studies has the equivalent of only 6.90 full-time teaching fellows while History...
Neither Slow Dance nore the December show, Purlie, is likely to lend itself to another CAST tradition, that of touring a production to Walpole Prison or elsewhere outside Harvard. But Alan Shotkin, producer of Slow Dance, hopes to increase the show's exposure by more traditional means, primarily by cramming eight or nine performances into the two-weekend run. Because so much devolves on each actor, matinees, but no midnight shows, are being contemplated. "You could kill people that way," Shotkin explains...
Only a few--and E.B. White is one--write so well they can get away with precision, with coziness, with beautifully turned sentences, with smallness. It is not dazzling, or attention-grabbing, and that is the point. Great carpenters plane and sand and join with such skill that they lend significance to their product, and writers can do the same. In an age of literary civil engineers, when the multitudes try to write novels taller than the Sears Tower, White is a carpenter, rubbing his essays and, in this instance, sketches and poems, with 600-grade sandpaper till they...
...Miller's suppliers delayed payments on his monthly food and laundry bills, but then they began demanding cash on delivery. As his debts grew-eventually to more than $4,000 per month in payments-McMiller tried to borrow his way out of trouble, but no bank would lend. Last August he filed to restructure his debt under the Federal Bankruptcy Act. He has laid off six of his ten employees and leased his restaurant...