Word: lended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...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...
...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...
...Regional Center for Developmental Disabilities, in Lapeer, Mich. Oakdale officials told the NIMH that as far as they knew, the research never took place; the only subjects Breuning was officially authorized to study at the time were goldfish and rats. How was the psychologist able to persuade others to lend their names to his work? Says Thomas Gualtieri, who helped blow the whistle on Breuning: "He would come up with marvelous data that would corroborate everything you had ever written. It was an excellent way of co-opting co-authors...
...expertise. Herron admits to "being a classicist" and adds, "I don't like prolonged periods of working with texts that are apt to bring up what is emotional in myself." Authors such as Alice Walker tend to tie themselves up with intense emotion where classic writers like Homer lend themselves to a more intellectual reading of the text, she says...