Word: lended
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...Asia's governments to ease the pain would be to finish cleaning up the mess left over from the 1997 debacle. In Thailand, many companies that ran into problems still haven't repaid their loans, leaving banks unwilling to lend to more viable firms. Korea has done more to reform its profligate ways but the government still props up sick companies with state funds, discouraging the kind of restructuring that would create more competitive businesses. Taiwan sailed through the crisis in 1997, but it is now reckoning with a Thai-style banking fiasco, albeit a less serious one. Taiwanese banks...
...hard to dissect a riot. a sudden eruption of anger and violence doesn't lend itself to tidy packaging. But last week, the people of Bradford were struggling to make sense of frightening scenes when hundreds of youths of Pakistani descent injured over 200 police officers and torched white-owned businesses in a predominantly Pakistani neighborhood. Those who run the city seemed shell-shocked. Was this a "simple" race riot expressing (however illegally) frustration at segregation and police harassment and unemployment? Or a bunch of thugs pumped up on testosterone and booze? Or drug dealers getting back at police...
...guard. Most IDs during Bannon's era simply had spaces for identifying characteristics, and they were easy enough to alter. They were also often issued under questionable, if not laughable, auspices--in Bannon's case, the Andover Stickball League, the name of which was printed in Gothic type to lend the card a nominal appearance of authority. As phony IDs went in those days, it probably would have been unremarkable had it not borne a most unusual feature--the signature of a future U.S. President...
...decade. But the fact that such an eventuality now appears to be upon us is in no small part a product of NATO's failure, out of concern for the safety of its own personnel, to do two things: Tackle the Albanian extremism incubated in its Kosovo protectorate, and lend a firm hand to Macedonia's efforts to stop it from taking root...
...this can lend itself to the kind of tired potshots against Wasp repressiveness that sometimes marred Beauty, with the open-casket funeral standing in for suburbia's houses made of ticky-tack. The show can be glib, and there are too many one-dimensional peripheral characters, like episode four's Latino gangbangers. But the leads are richly drawn and well cast; theater veteran Hall finds layers within layers in tightly wound David. In the pilot's finest scene, Nathaniel's funeral, Nate makes a self-indulgent show of refusing to sprinkle dirt on the grave from a tidy canister, protesting...