Word: lent
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...moral stature. Americans--and the rest of the world--want to see him use that to great ends. From the start, his presence at Bush's side conferred an extra legitimacy on an untried President, supplied experience to temper gut instinct. Powell's rich store of respect and goodwill lent confidence to allies overseas that the essentials of policy in the world's superpower would remain stable--or if they did change, that a reassuring interlocutor would be leading the process and explaining its wisdom...
...reaches for the door, Republicans are already eulogizing a man who lent a passionate voice to his causes. Across the aisle, congressional Democrats are plotting to replace a man who took great delight in complicating their years in power - and who, when it came his turn, exercised...
...exemplifies this intangible value we call individuality. Stradivari's cello found its way into the possession of the Russian court. There Servais, a young Belgian musician, contrived to play it before Czar Nicholas I. The Princess Yusupova, the story goes, had fallen for Servais in a big way and lent him the Stradivarius. The Czar praised the performance, and the Belgian modestly replied that it was surely due to the loan of the great cello. Whereupon the enamored princess exclaimed: "Oh, it wasn't a loan, it was a gift!" The Czar's court was said to be distinctly underwhelmed...
...When the slowdown hit in earnest last November and turned all the bulls to bears, bond traders got optimistic about the one thing that warms their hearts - the long-term inflation picture. Figuring the value of lent money would hold up nicely, they bid down the interest rates on the 10- and 30-year Treasury notes...
That raised the hackles of Canadian Environment Minister David Anderson, who snapped that the Bush-Chretien discussion will be "brief." The Prime Minister "will tell the President that we have a policy of not exporting water, and that, I guess, will be it." Bush's casual comment, though, lent encouragement to a handful of Canadian entrepreneurs who for years have been promoting schemes to export their country's plentiful water. "It's going to happen for sure," says Gerry White, president of McCurdy Enterprises, a real estate and construction firm in Gander, Newfoundland. "Trying to stop people from selling water...