Word: lende
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...region for a loan, they refused her because she lacked collateral. Then she heard about a group called Women's World Banking, which agreed to guarantee up to 75% of any loan she received. With the group's backing, Montenegro found a bank that was willing to lend her $3,125. Eight years later, she owns three bicycle-repair shops and employs 18 people. "The world has enough workers," says Montenegro. "What I wanted to do was create more jobs...
...firm's $15 million line of credit, suddenly backed out and warned him that he would soon lose access to the original $15 million. That sent Pappathanasi on a frantic dash for cash that ended when he found banks in New York City and London that were willing to lend. Says he: "I didn't sleep for two months chasing these loans...
Membership has its privileges, but depositing money at 6.54% is a privilege Amex is willing to extend to anybody. (Not least because it can turn around and lend that money to its Optima cardholders at 16.25%.) Noncardholders won't be billed, but can make deposits by mail...
...right, would actually claim to be one. A very good reason exists for this discrepancy. Like the "secular humanist" who was so much in vogue a few years ago, the moral relativist is a creature called into being by an overzealous right wing in order to lend itself credibility...
While Bush's concessions lend to the appearance that the U.S. is participating in great European events, they in fact do little more than make a virtue out of a necessity. The now canceled missiles would have had a 280- mile range, allowing them to carry only far enough to hit Czechoslovakia or within the borders of a rapidly unifying Germany. And neither Germany shares Bush's enthusiasm for the retention of the present Lance missiles, with a 78- mile range. Bush's stepped-up campaign for a conventional-forces treaty, limiting the Soviet Union to 195,000 troops beyond...