Word: lents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...office is also expected to solicit donations for Harvard's sore spots. Major renovations to the Radcliffe Quad houses have yet to be completed, and the University is already $780 million in hock for the fix-up job. But gifts to academic programs are more appealing; no one has lent a name and the necessary $7 to $10 million to renovate the last unnamed upperclass residence, North House...
...days is not enough time for a government to produce an impact," says Businessman Leonardo Alejandrino, "especially a government that almost by its own admission was not ready to hold office. But it is a long enough time for the euphoria to start wearing thin." Fortune may have lent a hand with the storybook beginning, but it is up to Aquino alone to secure a happy ending...
...Illinois, in 1984, and the latest surge of bankruptcies in the energy belt could at least cause some smaller institutions to collapse. The top U.S. banks have an estimated $40 billion in oil and natural gas loans on their books, and more than half of the money has been lent to vulnerable small companies...
...Jean Paul III, was kidnaped in Italy. Publicly, the wizened billionaire refused to pay ransom, a sound decision since he had 14 other grandchildren and did not want to set a tempting precedent. But after the boy's freshly detached ear was delivered as a warning, the old man lent young Getty's father, Jean Paul Jr., $850,000 to secure his son's release. The agreement called for a reasonable interest rate...
...melancholy for everything exotic the empire has owned and lost. To a romantic imperialist brooding over his sherry, the decorous Indians, with their subversive good manners, impressive intellectual tradition and caste system as rigid as their overlords', seemed perfect Asian ambassadors for all things English. The years have lent Indians and Pakistanis of old an ironic nobility; about them a Brit can feel at once guilty and nostalgic. Unless, of course, one has to deal with their sons and daughters on the streets of London. Now the Indo-Paks' manner is seen as rude and abrupt, their intellectual energy devoted...