Word: lents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...campaign was also blessed in the closing months with two huge gifts--the $5 million Kukin gift for the society of international fellows, and a $2 million gift from retired Michigan lumberman John W. Blodgett '23, who had already lent his name--and millions of dollars--to the Blodgett Pool...
Corporate investors in South Africa include most of the U.S. blue-chip giants. Among those singled out by protesters: Citicorp, which has in the past lent money to the Pretoria government; Mobil Oil, which has invested about $426 million and sells its products to the government's procurement office; and IBM, whose computers are used by the country's bureaucracy. Business spokesmen argue that U.S. firms provide jobs for blacks in South Africa, work quietly to break down racial barriers and would be replaced by companies with a lower social consciousness if they pulled out. Indeed, many...
...wallpaper at his celebrated Wiener Werkstatte. Bauhaus builders made seating and sinks to furnish their functional structures, and Michigan's Cranbrook Academy of Art inspired mid-century classics like the Eames lounge chair. Frank Lloyd Wright not only fashioned lamps and dinnerware to complement his houses, but even lent his name to mass-produced furniture, carpets and fabrics...
...Indian community of 900,000 before anyone could escape. In the event of a similar Cambridge accident, however, a half kilogram of nerve gas emanating from ADL would have "some impact, but nowhere near the effect of the thing in India," says Edmund Crouch, a Harvard physicist who lent his risk-assessing skills to the local advisory group...
...down to one of the military units in my hometown in South India. People lined the streets and waved as always. Traffic came to a standstill as the official convoy went by. In the hot Indian sunshine, she seemed tireless and determined, her strong features and white-streaked hair lent her an air of invincibility. To me, she embodied the strength of India, its achievements, its aspirations and its very spirit. For many Indians, there is today a personal sense of loss. Indira was not always one of the world's greatest leaders...