Word: loan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...second wave of hold-on-theres followed. The press had overreacted, said the press. The press had led and misled the public. There were so many more important stories to cover, said the press (as if that had not been the case during Iran-contra and the savings-and-loan frauds, when no princess had died). Behind all that was the embarrassing feeling that journalism had been swept up in a popular moment that it ought to have dissected or belittled, and so then it did, in an effort to cleanse itself of having dealt with the sort of news...
Several members of the Campus Life Committee (CLC) can loan out the system, according to Samuel C. Cohen '00, CLC co-chair...
...seems purposefully oblique, out of a professed fear of rattling the financial markets. But lately the agency has tried to become more transparent in its actions. In the recent Thai bailout, under IMF pressure the Thai's took the unusual step of releasing a detailed, multipage summary of the loan agreement...
...hope of softening the impact on the poor, the IMF is now including social-policy directives as part of its loan package. This summer the fund signed an agreement with Argentina in which Buenos Aires agreed to give priority in budgeting to primary schools and health care and to strengthen the independence of the judiciary. The agency's deal with Thailand includes provisions to help the jobless...
...tends to countries that are so deep in crisis that the only options are ones that hurt. By the time a country asks for IMF aid, foreign investors have long since fled, international banks have shut their lending windows, and the world's private capital markets are offering the loan-shark interest rates that go to high-risk borrowers...