Word: lents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...additional infusion of funds lent an entirely new dimension to the endemic problem of corruption. Although Mexicans are accustomed to the idea that their elected officials will steal "a little bit," they were not prepared for the flagrant abuses that began to be obvious. To many Mexicans, the previous regime's corruption is best symbolized by "Dog Hill," an Olympian, 32.5-acre complex high above the Mexico City smog line, where López Portillo has built palatial homes for himself and his children...
Communications satellites also serve as stellar teachers. In 1975 the U.S. lent India an experimental satellite called AT56 (for Applications Technology Satellite), which, from its position over the Indian Ocean, relayed programs on such topics as farming and family planning from New Delhi to millions of villagers. AT56 was eventually parked over the Pacific, where it was a vital communications link for the far-flung islands of Micronesia. But not all countries welcome the messages from the sky. The Soviet Union and its East bloc allies, as well as many Third World countries, oppose any transmissions from space not authorized...
...race lent itself less to analysis than to psychoanalysis. Many polls showed the mayor leading by about 20 points. But the surveys were obviously unable to fathom the electorate's ambivalent feelings about Koch, who is charming one moment, grating the next...
...this at a Government launch site." The site was, in fact, on a 19,000-acre ranch lent by Oil Mogul Toddie Lee Wynne, 85, one of SSI's main financial angels, who died a few hours before liftoff. With the, countdown under way, a launching-pad engineer wandered out to Conestoga I and, with a felt-tipped pen, scribbled on the rocket, GOD BLESS YOU, TODDIE LEE WYNNE. You can't do that at a Government launch site either...
...I.O.R. five days before the letters of patronage were issued. The liberating letter in effect negates the letters of patronage and relieves the Vatican bank of any responsibility for the companies in question. Yet this letter was never made known to the Ambrosiano Latin American banks that lent money to Calvi's shell firms. The liberating letter thus gives the arrangement between Calvi and the I.O.R. the appearance of a conspiracy to withhold essential information from the lending banks. The various letters suggest that Marcinkus allowed the Vatican's name to be used in a questionable...