Word: lended
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...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...
...daughter to a game of badminton. We watch home movies together, and when I see my dear friend's kids as toddlers, I have a hard time believing that I wasn't always there, somewhere just beyond the reach of the camera lens. We watch each other's back, lend each other money and love each other's kids...
...last thing that anyone in the government, anyone in law enforcement and above all any of McVeigh's surviving victims could abide was anything that might give him satisfaction or lend his theories of moral equivalence a veneer of legitimacy. They wanted to take away his platform. Most were ready for him to die, and the execution had the makings of an awful circus: 1,600 reporters were booking rooms in Terre Haute, Ind., for next Wednesday. "Good morning, America, it's time to kill a killer, but first, this is Today." All those cameras, all those talking heads...
...will it? "Airbus receives success-dependent, low-interest loans from European governments," says Dorothy Robyn, an economist who worked in the Clinton Administration. "Essentially that means Airbus has no bottom line." Britain, Germany, Spain and France will lend Airbus a third of the development costs at close to market rates. The loans don't have to be repaid if the project fails. That kind of cushion, critics charge, guarantees the A380 a soft landing. Boeing gets indirect handouts through its lucrative U.S. defense contracts. Last March, for example, the Air Force floated a plan to encourage private carriers...
...would want to take on the challenge and would head up publicity for all of the council’s events and initiatives. To make this type of position desirable, the council should create an additional spot on its executive committee for the chief of publicity. Doing so would lend some prestige and weight to the person’s role...