Word: lended
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...purchase, Sotheby's had lent him $27 million. "Whatever the arrangement, it helped to raise the inflationary value of that particular picture," asserts Christopher Burge, president of Sotheby's starchy rival, Christie's. Like most auction houses, Christie's helps buyers find financing from banks but will not lend money itself; nor does it offer guarantees to sellers...
...clashes may lend urgency to diplomatic efforts aimed at ending the strife. During a visit to Viet Nam and Cambodia last week, Michael Costello, deputy secretary of Australia's foreign affairs department, reportedly got a promising response to his government's proposal that the United Nations administer Cambodia until free elections are held. Also China, which backs the Khmer Rouge, last week welcomed an unspecified role...
...Last week Baker bolted into the delivery room to lend a hand. In addition to inspecting the Berlin Wall and meeting East German Prime Minister Hans Modrow, Baker proposed a revamped role for the U.S. in the "whole and free" Europe that is aborning. Its theme: to refurbish existing international bodies so that they can bear new loads as they shed others. Although framed in general terms, the plan nonetheless displayed a creative flair and reassured allies that the U.S. intends to remain, in Baker's words, part of "Europe's neighborhood...
...Rotterdam, where he would deposit his cash in the bank's local branch. The American would control the newly created Dutch corporation through an Antilles trust company, but his identity as the owner would be protected by the island group's impenetrable secrecy laws. The Caribbean branch would then "lend" the American his own money held in Rotterdam...
...models by designer Tony Walton are on view at New York City's American Museum of the Moving Image. Triple-threat Walton has an Oscar, two Tonys and an Emmy for his work in film, theater and television. Whether creating a gleaming silver-and- white Deco hotel room for Lend Me a Tenor or a ship caught in The Tempest's hurricane, Walton gives life to a world suggested by words. Through August...