Search Details

Word: lende (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Thus, it is unbelievable that the University could ever lend PBH a bus that was about to burst into flames. When you lend someone your car, it is implicit that when they try to drive it, it will not blow up. But the real stomach-turner hits when one takes a look at how Harvard has handled the PBH affair...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Nordhaus, | Title: Harvard, Have You Forgotten About PBH? | 8/7/1987 | See Source »

Harvard has pretended to have no real connection to PBH. The University has never explained why, on one hand, it could lend shuttle buses to the group--and then claim that no official relationship existed...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Nordhaus, | Title: Harvard, Have You Forgotten About PBH? | 8/7/1987 | See Source »

...leather or the rubber?" Such materials have always been distributed to state-run enterprises by Gossnab, the government's main supply agency. There is not yet a procedure under which a private shoemaker can purchase leather from a private tanner. Nor are there many credit institutions that would lend an individual producer money to start a business, much less provide the sort of venture capital that fuels entrepreneurship in the West. Work is currently under way to set up such structures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Mikhail Gorbachev Bring It Off? | 7/27/1987 | See Source »

...with the proviso that current obligations be met. The club's membership list includes such predictable names as the U.S., Britain, France and Japan, all well-known international lenders. But the club also includes some Third World debtors, like Brazil (foreign debt: $110 billion), that have nonetheless managed to lend money to other developing nations. In the past four years alone, the Paris Club has been able to reschedule more than $63 billion worth of uncollectible obligations. The volume of rescheduled debt, says Jean-Claude Trichet, the sharp-eyed Cabinet director of France's Finance Ministry, "shows that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Debt? Ring Up the Louvre | 7/13/1987 | See Source »

...government agency may legally lend geography books containing maps to religious day schools but may not lend maps alone or films on geography. It may bus students from their homes to such schools but not from the schools to museums. It may diagnose speech or hearing problems on the schools' premises, but subsequent therapy must occur elsewhere if public money is involved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIGION Threatening the Wall | 7/6/1987 | See Source »

Previous | 246 | 247 | 248 | 249 | 250 | 251 | 252 | 253 | 254 | 255 | 256 | 257 | 258 | 259 | 260 | 261 | 262 | 263 | 264 | 265 | 266 | Next