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Your analysis of the banking problems between American lenders and Third World borrowers is doubtless admirable, but for me incomplete. It fails to mention Ogden Nash's "One rule which woe betides the banker who fails to heed it,/ Which is you must never lend any money to anybody unless they don't need...
...Force MI-8 helicopters swooped down into the area, while special Indian Army units trained in chemical warfare were airlifted to the local airport and positioned within the 72-acre compound. Around the city, more than 2,000 paramilitary troops and armed police officers were moved in to lend emergency assistance. Meanwhile, thousands of civilians were fleeing the city...
...come all ye faithful, ye clever and wise. Who all through the year lend The Crimson your eyes. To you we offer our biggest salute: Happy Holidays and have ye a good year to boot...
HAROLD PINTER'S THEATRE, as with most things, including birth, is all in the delivery. But unlike birth--which does not lend itself to baseball pitching metaphors--Pinter has to come at you with a curve or it'll go straight to the (bridal) showers...
Many small businesses fear that branches of big chains will take local savings deposits but not lend them back to firms in the community. "In rural Minnesota, many banks lend money on a handshake," says Daryl Erdman, the Minnesota supermarket owner. "Even if a guy's financial statement is a mess, the banker knows he's good for it. What happens if Chase Manhattan puts a brand-new East Coast M.B. A. in here...