Word: lende
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Reader Carli Schomerhorn, 12, from Great Falls, MT, writes, "I have a fear of embarrassing myself in public because my all-Mexican diet and natural body chemistry lend to an overproduction of gas." Here's a problem and solution set that can help deal with any potential public sheepishness...
...like to pay only a quarter of the real estate taxes you owe on your home? And buy everything for the next 10 years without spending a single penny in sales tax? Keep a chunk of your paycheck free of income taxes? Have the city in which you live lend you money at rates cheaper than any bank charges? Then have the same city install free water and sewer lines to your house, offer you a perpetual discount on utility bills--and top it all off by landscaping your front yard at no charge...
...from one building to another--and tax credits for hiring new employees. They supply funds to train workers or pay part of their wages while they are in training, and provide scientific and engineering assistance to solve workplace technical problems. They repave existing roads and build new ones. They lend money at bargain-basement interest rates to erect plants or buy equipment. They excuse corporations from paying sales and property taxes and relieve them from taxes on investment income...
...kids are smarter and hipper than the boomers in their prime, why aren't they changing the world? You already know the easy answers. AIDS, harder drugs, pocket-size weapons of mass destruction, global warming, economic scarcity--the world today doesn't lend itself to simplistic oppositions or easy optimism. But beyond that, the new counterculture is basically postpolitical and tribalized. The TAZ movement eschews changing the world in favor of finding some liberated space, or even a liberated moment, within it. And from goths to rastas to ravers to slackers, the focus of countercultural tribes is on evolving alternative...
...says Bob Igiel, director of the ad agency Media Edge. Sponsorship revenue for extreme sports is expected to reach $135 million this year, up from just $24 million four years ago. And the FLW bass-fishing tour has landed the biggest sponsorship catch of all, persuading Wal-Mart to lend its name to a sporting event for the first time in the store's 36-year history...