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...nation's largest banks have made to businesses fell an additional $2.4 billion in the week ending June 9, to $274.8 billion. Fearful that the scarcity of bank credit might sabotage the fragile economy, the White House and federal agencies are working feverishly to encourage banks to open their lending windows. In the past two weeks, government regulators have introduced steps to make it easier for banks to lend. For instance, less paperwork will be needed to process loans, and formal appraisals are no longer required for every real estate loan...
...lessons to impart. First, TV cartoons (especially The Simpsons) are largely dialogue- driven; a more stylized, visual cartoon like Family Dog is probably doomed without the sort of animation care that TV budgets don't permit. Second, big- name filmmakers venturing into TV need to do more than simply lend their big names. Burton and Spielberg, it seems, did little for Family Dog except use their clout to get it on the air. One expected more...
Cambridge is divided by the Census Bureau into 30 tracts, which the city has grouped into 13 "areas." The top tracts have a per capita income of about $42,000. Many of the banks lend heavily to the city's wealthiest neighborhoods...
Those were the Roosevelt years. Classmates were divided on the issues. On the one hand, Lend Lease and Bundles for Britain, on the other America First. Then, a few months into our junior year, came December 7, "the day that shall live in infamy," and everything changed...
...discovery is at once unnerving and beautiful, taking the reader to "a pond lost in some godforsaken village, in a place where the honking of cars and the whistling of trains is something mysterious, exotic.... A place where a man whips his wife with a flail if she dares lend a few baskets of grain or a few bricks to relatives in need. A strip of land somewhere in [her] country, in the 1980s...