Word: lende
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Libyan-Egyptian border. Another Western diplomat said flatly: "The means employed by this Administration are completely disproportionate to the intended effect. They nullify it." In Bonn, officials privately called the approach heavy handed, fearing that it would attract attention to U.S. interests in Egypt, fan further Islamic unrest and lend substance to Soviet charges that the Egyptian government is an American puppet. Right on cue, the Soviet press accused the Administration of "crude interference" in Egypt's affairs and insisted that the U.S. was "feverishly stepping up war preparations in the Middle East...
...students protested recent Reagan administration proposals that would "ease restrictions on internal spying, tighten federal regulations on classified materials, and lend support to dictatorships, throwing our human rights policy out the window," Stefan Cluver, a junior who faces disciplinary action, said this week...
What the proper role of the Houses should be--and whether they are fulfilling it--is another vexing question Bok must cope with if he continues to tackle the behavior issue. Few students today lend their primary allegiance to their House; most feel more a part of outside organizations, like athletic teams. The Houses in large part have thus become atomized. Cliques developing in a given House reinforce themselves through the housing lottery's peculiar form of natural selection, making House unity hard to attain...
...flip side to this is that each crew has its moment in the sun, no matter how poorly it does. The boats glide one-by-one under the packed Anderson Bridge, and throngs of enthusiastic well-wishers lend their support to each vessel. Only when the times become known a half-hour after the event ends are the winners determined. For the fans, the results often remain unknown unless they read the agate type in the next day's Globe...
Washington has run deficits in 42 of the past 50 years and has been forced to borrow heavily to bridge the gap between income and outlay. The Government does this by issuing bonds, notes and bills, which are promises to pay money back to investors willing to lend it. In the main, Washington owes the $1 trillion to Americans. Only 14% of the public debt is held by foreigners...