Word: loaned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Secretary of State James Baker and other White House officials urged the Commerce and Defense departments to approve sales to Iraq of sensitive U.S. technology that found its way into Saddam's weapons programs, including his effort to develop a nuclear bomb. The White House also pressed for federal loan guarantees that encouraged banks to extend credit to Iraq in return for assurances that the U.S. Treasury would pay if the Iraqis reneged. They did. Now American taxpayers are left holding the bag for $1.5 billion in bad loans...
...CIDFA works with banks to provide bond financing and loan pools for young businesses that the city considers promising...
...shift of power to the suburbs began slowly and was propelled by government policies. The first burst of suburbanization in the post-World War II era was made possible by guaranteed home loans for veterans and government subsidies for highway construction. The final and shattering blow came during the 1980s, when developers flush with government - guaranteed loans from savings and loan associations helped erect clusters of industrial parks and research-and-develop ment centers along the beltways that ring many central cities...
...declared itself "mad as hell." In fact, it is so mad that maybe as much as forty percent will go to the polls in November. Why exactly it is mad is nuclear. Perhaps it was the recession, which elected officials didn't cause. Maybe it was the savings and loan scandal that was a direct result of the industry deregulation the voting public was so in love with in 1980. Or it could even have been House members bouncing checks, even though no taxpayer money was involved...
Other law-enforcement units were also slow to react. Though California Governor Pete Wilson deployed about 2,000 National Guard troops on Wednesday evening, it took almost 24 hours for the extra men to reach the streets. They were followed by hundreds of California highway patrolmen on loan from other parts of the state. By the time President Bush dispatched 4,500 federal troops to the area at week's end, the violence had largely abated...