Word: lending
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...matter. Thelma & Louise is a movie whose scenes and themes lend themselves to provocative discussions. What business it's doing is in all the right places -- the big cities and college towns where opinion makers are ever on the alert for something to make an opinion about. For their purposes, this movie is a natural. In the most literal sense of the word. For the picture has a curiously unselfconscious manner about it, an air of not being completely aware of its own subtexts or largest intentions, of being innocently open to interpretation, appropriate and otherwise...
...month-old slump could end this summer, economists say the ) rebound will be far less robust than any of the eight other U.S. recoveries since World War II. The outlook is bleak largely because the 1980s debt binge still hobbles companies and consumer spending and makes banks unwilling to lend. At the same time, the $318 billion federal deficit handcuffs Washington's ability to stimulate business by cutting taxes and boosting spending -- tactics that helped the U.S. come roaring out of previous slumps...
...Rudenstine's first responsibilities as president will be to find Graham's successor. Eager to lend a hand, Bok appointed a five-member search committee in March. Rudenstine has met three times with this committee, which has developed a short list of six to eight names, according to committee member Catherine E. Snow, associate dean of the Ed School...
...have no desire to run these properties. But buyers are hard to find nowadays. "The market to purchase hotels is dead," says Morris Lasky, chief executive of Lodging Unlimited, a firm based in West Chester, Pa., that specializes in turning around problem hotels. "Banks are not going to lend to new buyers, and there isn't anybody with cash to buy these things." Among the many anxious sellers is the government's Resolution Trust Corporation, which has 160 hotels in its portfolio of failed...
...White House in the event of my death." That is a ceremonial lie. The choice of a vice- presidential running mate is a purely political calculation aimed at winning the November election. A presidential candidate looks for a complementary running mate, someone to shore up a weak side -- to lend geographical or ideological balance, for example. Conservative Californian Ronald Reagan picked Connecticut-Texas moderate George Bush. It may be a matter of ages, aesthetics, chemistry and coloring, as well as political alliances. Elder, moderate, military statesman Dwight Eisenhower chose younger, nastier, darker, feistier conservative Richard Nixon. At some time down...