Word: lents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...experience of a training week at Red Top, with no studies to interrupt the rowing, lent a special intensity to The Race. Despite the loss, there are no regrets. As one oarsman said of the week, "Never again in my life will I ever focus that much on one all-consuming thing...
...Cooke hoax unfortunately lent credence to the old adage that you cannot believe everything you read in the papers. Says Michael Gartner, editor of the Des Moines Register and Tribune: "When you damage the credibility of the Post you damage the credibility of the Des Moines Register and every other paper in the country." Shaken, many papers began re-examining their own policies on sources. "We are working at putting something in writing," says Boston Globe Editor Thomas Winship. Nowhere was the process so intense as it was at the Washington Post. Bradlee reminded the staff last week: "The credibility...
...most of his friends were wed. We saw the feelings of his parents, the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, turn from indulgence to impatience until, one long weekend when the Prince was away and unreachable, the Queen gave vent to the slightly petulant and now famous question that lent the episode its title...
From Manhattan came Detective Charles Nanton; from Oakland, Calif., Sergeant Alexander Smith. The detective credited with solving the seven "Merritt Parkway Bra" murders in Stamford, Conn., Lieutenant George Mayer, arrived. Detroit police lent the services of Lieutenant Gilbert Hill, who cleared up the "Browning Gang" case that had claimed 15 victims. And out of retirement came Captain Pierce Brooks, who caught the killers of a Los Angeles policeman in the celebrated "Onion Field" case...
Under McNamara, the World Bank embarked on an ambitious program to increase lending commitments to $30 billion by 1985. Last year the bank lent over $12 billion, up from $1 billion in 1968, when McNamara was appointed president. In an emotional farewell speech to the bank's annual meeting last month, McNamara defended often unpopular foreign aid to underdeveloped countries. Said he: "Investment in the human potential of the poor is not only morally right, it's very sound economics...