Word: lended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...farms and related businesses lose sales or cut back services. If that happens, the state's unemployment rate could jump from 4.7% now to nearly 20%. Local schools may suffer, since they rely heavily on cattle head taxes for income. Numerous banks may be hurt, particularly those that lend almost exclusively on cash crops and cattle. Many banks have also extended car, machinery and disaster loans to farmers who now have little cash to repay them. The light industry that is gradually moving into South Dakota may provide some new sources of revenue, but in two-thirds...
...took out $9 billion in new loans, increasing their total indebtedness to $32 billion. So far this year, borrowing has continued at the same furious pace. The latest estimates put Eastern European debt to the West at about $37 billion. That is more than three times the total of Lend-Lease aid extended by the U.S. to the Soviet Union during World...
...muted grays and browns. There is a swimming pool, a sauna, a movie theater, a two-deck dining room and a grand salon. Originally the Queen was intended to be a much closer copy of her predecessors but, as one river regular explained, "steel and asbestos don't lend themselves to curlicues and steamboat gothic...
Turning that vision into reality proved a long and arduous task. The cost of buying the buildings and refurbishing them would come to $30 million; banks refused to lend that much unless the project could come up with some major tenants. In 1972 Shopping Center Developer James Rouse, convinced that a lively, unique urban market contained a high potential for profit, joined the cause. His commitment opened the taps of private and public money...
...black demands for justice and equality. In Washington, Kissinger expressed his regrets at the outbreak of violence, and said that he would explicitly spell out American opposition to apartheid at his meetings with the South African leader. "I'm not meeting with Vorster to make concessions or to lend approval of the system of government. I'm meeting to see if South Africa is willing to contribute to a moderate and peaceful evolution of events in southern Africa. The question I want to explore is whether South Africa is prepared to separate its own future from Rhodesia...