Word: lending
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rest on the fact that he was caught smoking crack in a Washington hotel. No, the problem is that black Americans can no longer afford to invest their dwindling political capital in elected officials such as Barry, whose erratic performance in public office and soap-operaish private life lend support to the most racist assumptions about black incompetence...
...Taiwan, underlined by war games offshore, that it must remain committed to eventual reunification and squelch whatever dreams of independence it might be harboring. True, what is happening off Taiwan is pantomime rather than confrontation: eager to avoid a clash, both sides are merely using their military to lend muscle to political messages. But to date neither Washington nor Beijing has given much indication that it knows the other well enough to ensure that pantomime belligerence does not someday give way to the real thing...
...Years of Celluloid Queers, available in some video stores), we see gay characters haunting the corners of the film frame. From the early days of silent films (when Charlie Chaplin, in a barbershop, gives a cruel hairdo to an effeminate man) to the '90s (when gay or bisexual murderers lend lurid pizazz to The Silence of the Lambs and Basic Instinct), American films--like America itself--have typically treated gays as a joke or a curse...
According to Steven Meacham, organizer of the activist group Eviction Free Zone, the plan would lend backbone to a report issued last October by the council's Housing Committee. The report called on Harvard and the city to jointly fund the sale of the University's 700 formerly rent-controlled apartments at below-market rates...
...would like to lend our full-fledged support to Youth Vote, which seems a solid, well-thought-out attempt to combat voter apathy in the United States. And voter apathy is certainly a problem. According to conference organizer Ivan Frishberg, who is also higher education advocate for the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, the overall voter turnout in the 1992 presidential election was 63.1 percent, and the turnout among 18- to 24-year-olds was only 43 percent. Turnouts for non-presidential elections are usually much lower...