Word: lent
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...course, winning an election is the main reason that Gandhi has come to Bhatinda. He has lent his star power to five young, handsome Congress candidates who are running for parliament from Punjab. All of them also come from politically well-connected families, though none with the name recognition of the Gandhis. The crowd waited under massive white awnings during the scorching midday heat to hear Gandhi at the rally, which was held during the April 14 Baisakh festival celebrating the spring harvest. He introduced each one of the candidates in turn, hailing them in his textbook Hindi as naujawan...
...SDRs a bigger role. After the dollar fell in currency markets in reaction, Geithner backpedaled. But at the G-20 meeting in London, President Barack Obama joined the assembled heads of state in agreeing to a nearly tenfold, $250 billion increase in the amount of SDRs available to be lent out. (Read "China Takes a Small Step Away from the Dollar...
...stable to check the stalls occupied by Harvard’s 14 “polo ponies.” Of five donated to Harvard, three are gifts from actor and polo fan Tommy Lee Jones ’69; the rest are privately owned, typically older horses lent to the team for the season. Though a school like Cornell boasts a 30-horse string, Harvard’s 14 are better than nothing (what the team had last year), and if proper arrangements with outside interests are made, the team may see double the number of ponies next fall...
FILM COMPOSERS DON'T write melodies so much as emotions; their music is the heartbeat that gives movie images instant and lasting resonance. Jarre, who died in Los Angeles on March 29 at 84, put this knowledge to use in his first famous scores: the heroic theme that lent a galloping grandeur to David Lean's 1962 Middle Eastern western, Lawrence of Arabia, and the chorus of balalaikas in Lean's 1965 Doctor Zhivago that promised ecstatic reunion after the grimmest separation. In a half-century of movie work, Jarre wrote the music for more than 150 features...
...part with loans should be willing to pay more than someone who has to buy that same asset with just their own cash. Based on TIME.com's analysis, an investor, using the 6-to-1 leverage the government is providing, can pay as much as $0.70 per dollar lent, and still expect to get the same return as an unlevered investor...