Word: lende
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...vital to the arrangement of institutional art loans. The free circulation of works of art among museums depends on them. "If we can't honor our contracts, it will have the iciest chilling effect on loans," MOMA's legal counsel, Stephen Clark, told the New York Times. "Who would lend, knowing that the pictures might not come back...
Treasury and IMF officials worked through the next day to finish the aid package. The IMF would lend Seoul $2 billion, while the U.S., Japan, Germany and other nations kicked in an additional $8 billion in loans. In exchange, the Koreans would pass new laws opening their financial markets to foreigners, close insolvent banks and supervise others. As the deal came together, Treasury officials discussed the impact of a bailout on the Korean and American labor unions, fearing some of Labor's backers in the Democratic Party would balk at bailing out either Wall Street or the protectionist Korean workers...
...uses seem to undermine his paradigm that the African is always right. On the boat, after the mutiny, the Africans speak their native language to each other without translation, while the Spaniards they kept alive to help steer the boat are provided with subtitles--a conspicuous effort to lend a sense of foreignness to the Spaniards and a universality to the endeavors of the Africans. The fact remains, though, that the audience does not understand what the Africans say, so while the Spanish dialogue has some import, that of the Africans' is relegated to incomprehensibility. Later on, inconsistent application...
With the support of Yazzie, who works as a drafter in the Boston area to provide for the family financially, Payanzo never had to enroll Dylan in day care. Paid babysitters and friends also lend a hand. This semester, Payanzo has extra assistance: her mother, who now lives with her. Jane Payanzo helps watch Dylan and cooks for the family...
Anthologies tend to lend themselves to filler, but not one of the stories included in The Best American Short Stories disappoints. In a year of monster tomes--Don DeLillo's Underworld, Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon, Haruki Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles--this collection shows that the short story promises to outlive the long novel for good reason...