Word: lending
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Weld, in contrast, lacks a proven record of successful administrative ability and has never served in elected office. The slickness of his campaign, the rehearsed political-ese in which he speaks, and his past associations with arch-conservatives all lend suspicion to both the genuineness of his newly acquired moderate positions and his ability to effect the changes necessary in Massachusetts...
...real estate contraction represents, in effect, the unraveling of the 1980s. For much of the decade, economies were growing, demand was strong, and, best of all, money was easy to come by. Financial institutions, especially American savings and loans, fell over themselves to lend to real estate developers. Says Pamela Rose, president of Chicago-based Rose & Associates, a real estate brokerage firm: "The fatal disease of this business is that developers love to develop. Real estate people simply lost control because there was so much money available." Concurs Richard Kateley, chief executive of Chicago's Real Estate Research Corp...
...HARVARD officials don't want to lend University space to film-processing ads and credit card applications, some restrictions on commercial advertising might be in order. And if the campus becomes too cluttered with signs, Harvard could even restrict the use of campus postering sites to Harvard students...
Kath Weston, an assistant professor of anthropology at Arizona State University, said the biggest challenge for scholars today is to recast theoretical work, so that people who are not professors can understand it. Although theoretical work helps to lend Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Studies legitimacy in academic circles, Weston said scholars must try to reach non-academics if they hope to agitate the public and help spark grassroots political change...
...reduce mortality rates and poverty among children and to improve access to immunizations and education. For once, this was more than a political lullaby of soothing promises: the very existence of the extraordinary summit held out hope to those who have fought to make children's voices heard. To lend support, more than a million people held 2,600 candlelight vigils earlier in the week -- in South Korea's Buddhist monasteries, in London's St. Paul's Cathedral, in Ethiopia's refugee camps, around Paris' Eiffel Tower, in 700 villages in Bangladesh...