Word: lended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After seeing some shows, one is tempted to say, "I gave at the office." Moral solicitation for worthy causes is an old and honorable U.S. custom. So is a distaste for indignity and injustice. But, barring isolated instances, the theater does not lend itself comfortably to social polemics and underdog rhetoric. What too often happens, and Zoot Suit is a case in point, is the reduction of the stage to a soapbox and the meaningless ritual of preaching to the already converted...
...previously been the rule. Rockefeller claimed that projects funded by moral obligation bonds would pay for themselves, but because the government invested them in non-revenue producing projects, they did not. When the Urban Development Corporation defaulted on its moral obligation bonds in February 1975, no bank would lend the city any more money...
...Harvard agrees to lend the city the space, it would be in use until the new library is completed. Joseph G. Sakey, director of city libraries, said yesterday that could take between 12 and 18 months...
...tales. A typical situation involves a husband who places his new wife so high on a pedestal that he cannot reach her to make love. Artists paint nude models instead of possessing them. Though these repeated male shortcomings may constitute a kind of sexual revenge, they also lend Nin's stories a plausibility missing in most erotica...
...dollar is weak, he believes, because it is the only significant international trading currency and more than 75% of the official reserves of all non Communist countries are held in dollars. This unique dominance has enabled U S banks to lend out so many billions of dollars that the world is awash with them, and their value has been tumbling. Nobody knows how Turkey Zaire, Peru and many other impecunious countries will ever pay back their loans to Citibank, Chase or the rest of the big U.S. lenders. The debtor countries, pleading poverty, could indefinitely defer repayment. Then the Federal...