Word: lended
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Getting ahead in Africa is tough. Banks lend money only to the middle class and the wealthy. Poor Africans--meaning most Africans--stay poor. It's even harder if you're sick. Without savings to fall back on, many HIV-positive parents pull their kids out of school. They can't afford the fees and end up selling their few possessions to feed the family. When they die, their kids are left with nothing...
...realize that after reading this week's Cover Story, you may want to do something. Working with Netaid.org an arm of the U.N. using the Internet to help those in trouble, TIME has developed opportunities to lend a hand. You can contribute by visiting Netaid.org This is not our first project. In the past two years, TIME readers have saved mothers' lives in Rwanda, found homes for orphans in Africa and helped Sierra Leonean war wounded get medical treatment. If you prefer to send a check, an address is available on the Netaid site. AOL members can go to keyword...
...buyout game is more complicated today. The typical LBO has three layers of financing--equity (put up by the buyer), senior debt (borrowed from a bank), and junior debt, or junk bonds (most often provided by junk-bond mutual funds). Banks are reluctant to lend for speculative buyouts with the economy slowing, though the Fed's rate cuts are easing that condition...
...place. Eager to keep impressing Wall Street with steroidal growth numbers and counting all manner of nascent start-ups and emerging companies among its potential customers, Lucent apparently developed a habit over the years of goosing up its sales with so-called vendor-financing arrangements, in which Lucent would lend customers the money to buy equipment and sometimes install...
...interesting to learn from Jackson's book ON WHICH THIS ESSAY IS MARGINALIA, I SUPPOSE, that friends would deliberately lend Coleridge their books, knowing he would mark them up endlessly. Thus, the lenders would be getting back a book improved by Coleridge. [Unless Coleridge were high on drugs...