Word: lends
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
HRLA will circulate a petition among students urging the administration to rehire Hicks. That effort may be co-sponsored by the Black Students Association, which will decide at a meeting tomorrow night whether to lend its support to the fired cook...
...CURIOUS CONTRADICTION: THE FEDERAL Deposit Insurance Corporation reported last Tuesday that bank earnings hit a record $32.2 billion in 1992, even as bank lending declined. Armed with such statistics, President Clinton asked the industry to loosen credit strings, particularly for small businesses. To encourage the major lending companies to lend more, Clinton unveiled a package of proposals designed to prompt banks to extend loans more on the basis of track record and reputation than on collateral...
...star of the show is Matthew Strack, who plays the geeky, ineffectual, soon-to-be-sacked Henry McNeil. His desperate but entirely inept brown-nosing of Taylor amuses the audience no end. The character does not lend itself to hamming; Strack manages to be both convincing and funny...
...much do first-time council members really know about the council's workings? Working within student government over time, one gains a better understanding of what is realistic and unrealistic, successful and unsuccessful. Experienced council members lend mature and valuable insight...