Word: lended
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...country - not long ago the target of U.S. bombs - is in line for a chunk of a $680 million pie. Reason: in the run-up to Gulf War II, Serbian and U.S. officials tell Time, Serbia gave the U.S. vital information about Iraqi targets. Serbia was perfectly poised to lend a hand. Throughout the 1990s, Yugoslav firms defied U.N. sanctions and did business in Iraq: an outfit named Yugoimport built the Baath Party...
...focus on rail. Tellier knows Bombardier, having served on its board for the past five years. Besides dumping its highly profitable recreational division as well as ancillary businesses like military-pilot training, the company is reining in its troubled financing arm, Bombardier Capital, which in the future will lend only to buyers of regional aircraft. Bombardier is the world's biggest producer of railway equipment, including the high-speed locomotives chosen for Amtrak's East Coast Acela service in the U.S. The company's new plan emphasizes its "many opportunities for synergies," and Tellier is already primed for some serious...
...admits manager Benoit Jancloes a trifle sheepishly, it currently doesn't have any actual newshounds among its members. "We're mainly for tourists," he says. Discounts for members of its venerable sibling in Phnom Penh, however, are sure to tempt the odd old Asia bore to totter in and lend some authenticity...
...President George W. Bush sent Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, an ex-wrestler, to New Delhi and Islamabad last week to lend support?and apply pressure. Before Armitage landed, leaders from both countries were quick to show Washington they were actively pushing for peace. In addition to hurling cricket balls, India and Pakistan have agreed to resume air and road links next month, as well as restore full diplomatic relations, which they suspended 17 months ago. But both sides know that any hope of peace talks could easily be sabotaged by a violent incident like the March 24 massacre...
...lend a whiff of aristocracy to his enterprise, Singer relies on the orotund majesty of British thesping. Stewart and McKellen give heft to their respective patriarch and pariah. They make each debate on the shaky future of mankind sound as if it were taking place in the House of Lords--even if they are both forced to sport the goofiest headgear in fantasy-film history...