Word: lended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...antagonize him, particularly at a time when they have many acquisitions in the works. Instead of raising the prime now, bankers are likely to offer the 6% rate to fewer borrowers. Or, as Economist Milton Friedman quips, the prime rate is the rate at which banks will refuse to lend money to their best customers. Charges for other kinds of short-term credit-Treasury bills, federal funds, 90-and 180-day commercial paper-will keep edging upward. Rates are rising because loan demand is increasing...
...expected, Beatrice is morbidly hungry for a man, though she hated the one she had and the only one she ever really loved was her father. Her problem is neurotic, but Zindel warps it into cultural dimensions it doesn't deserve. When her brother-in-law refuses to lend her the capital she needs to open up a tea shop and "get back on the map," Zindel would like to brand Darwinian America as the villain, but in spite of himself all the dramatic evidence points to Beatrice herself. She pits a tough exterior against ghetto inertia, but Zindel...
...Picklecar." He plans eventually to create an entire series of vegetable cars. His next project, though, is going to be the creation of a hot fudge sundae from a 1950 Nash. He also plans to make a big shoe using a 1950 Ford. Sewell says cars of the 1950s lend themselves to his type of work...
...Gilbert's comedie manque does not refresh. Like real life, it can even be quite a bore. Gilbert struggled manfully with the fact that the life he was filming did not lend itself easily to a dramatic format, that like most lives it essentially lacked the clear developments and resolutions of fiction. Not only did he edit his 300 hours of film down to 12, but he arranged his episodes out of chronological order, beginning with the last day's filming, New Year's Eve, 1971, and then recapitulating the previous seven months. From the first episode, Gilbert tried...
FORTY YEARS OF CHINA watching preceded Barbara Tuchman's six week visit to China in the summer of 1972. Behind her were two Pulitzer Prizes, the most recent for Stillwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945. Her authority as a pre-communist China expert lend weight to her insight into the tenacious Chinese riddle and she agreed to record her observations and impressions for the Associated Press and Harper's magazine. Notes From China consists of these and another previously published essay, the speculative "It Mao Had Come to Washington...