Word: lent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...presented by Sarbanes, as amended slightly, even though all knew what the general outcome would be; the ensuing tense roll call was a moving, memorable moment. The only "Aye" that questionable caused a vote was murmur to that of ripple Froehlich, through the who cast a otherwise si soft lent crowd of fewer than 300 reporters and spectators...
...that some Ex-Im loans have gone to foreign companies that export goods to the U.S., taking sales and jobs from domestic firms. AFL-CIO Lobbyist Ray Denison says Ex-Im has financed a Mexican factory that makes automobile springs that are shipped to the U.S. Recently, Ex-Im lent $75 million to the Bank of Tokyo to finance purchase by Japanese firms of 260,000 bales of U.S. cotton. Critics fear that that loan will worsen American inflation by raising the price of domestic cotton...
...this affable, unambitious movie, Nightclub Comedian Jackie Mason appears as a grubby police informer named Roger Pittman, who heads for Miami and a big time with $7,500 from the police contingency fund. Brogan (Dan Frazer), the cop who lent Roger the money as a means to trap a crook, lights out after him. With a couple of days' head start, though, Roger is already spending like crazy. He installs himself in an expensive hotel room, acquires an eye-numbing resort wardrobe and falls in love with a lonely number from Long Island (Marcia Jean Kurtz...
...paternalistic corporation eager to encourage worker morale in the interest of higher profits. Slaves, the book says, did almost all the skilled work of the plantations and most of the overseeing. In some cities, more than 25% of adult male slaves were skilled artisans, and when they were lent out for hire they shared the take with Massa...
...shouted after me, "I hope some red-neck driving along takes a pot-shot at you. That'll teach you!" I didn't say anything, it may just have been one of his lawyer's tricks. I just hoped he didn't find out my sister had lent me $20 to hitch back home...