Word: lending
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...debt. This amounts to $200 billion a year, hardly any of which will ever fill an orphan's tummy or dry a poor widow's tear. Instead, most of it flows directly to a handful of institutions and relatively well-heeled folks who were clever enough to lend the government money at profitable rates. To these fortunate individuals (nearly 15% of whom are not even American citizens), there is indeed a U.S. government, or at least someone who disburses those dividend checks...
Steedly said these images of the "masculine, aggressive monster" lend legitimacy to the alleged actions of such public figures as Clarence Thomas, Michael Tyson and William Kennedy Smith...
...Strauss says, noting that most food stores today are still state owned. He has enlisted the support of Georgi Matyukhin, head of the central bank, is in touch with a potential supplier of Russian-made sausage and is trying to persuade Moscow's mayor, Gavril Popov, to lend his weight to the plan...
...Justice Department announced an independent review of check-kiting practices on the Hill. Adding to the embarrassment, at least three Democrats -- Charles Wilson of Texas, former Congressmen Jim Bates of California and Doug Walgren of Pennsylvania -- used House bank checks to lend money to their election campaigns...
...decrying the use of anonymous sources, Adams appealed to fair play and to a growing opinion, even among journalists, that reporters place far too much faith in people unwilling to back up what they say. Often, unnamed sources seek to advance some personal agenda. Sometimes they tell lies and lend extra credence to falsehood by peddling it as top-secret truth. While Adams' abrupt withdrawal, at the end of a weekend during which he had raised $130,000 for his campaign, seemed like a tacit admission of guilt, he insisted that in his case the allegations -- which range from uninvited...