Word: loaned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...made it clear that the council had noliability in what he called a "loan," and not an"appropriation" of council funds, to Beys...
...Sara Melendez, who until recently served as vice provost and dean of arts and humanities at Connecticut's University of Bridgeport. The school, hard hit by the deterioration of its hometown, has been struggling to stave off its own demise. Late last year it began negotiations for an emergency loan of $2 million to $3 million in order to keep operating. Administrators now believe that the school can survive only by merging with nearby Sacred Heart University, though the law school prefers another partner...
...West Bank reflects how much the question of Israeli settlements in the occupied territories goes beyond political abstraction: it is an issue that cuts to the very dignity and survival of both Arabs and Jews. For them, the looming battle between Jerusalem and Washington over $10 billion in U.S. loan guarantees to Israel to help settle Soviet Jewish immigrants is a symbol not only of where the Bush Administration's sympathies lie but also of what the occupied territories' future is likely...
...diplomatic tussle lives up to pre-bout rhetoric, either the U.S.-Israeli friendship or the Middle East peace process could suffer a knockdown. Last September the Bush Administration hinted strongly that the loan guarantees might be linked to limits on settlement construction. President Bush has not budged since. Last week Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir answered by pledging to keep building, declaring that "no power in the world can prevent us from carrying on." In response, the Palestinian delegation to the U.S.-sponsored peace talks threatened to boycott the negotiations if the guarantees were granted unconditionally...
There may have been a step in that direction in a meeting last Friday between Secretary of State James Baker and Zalman Shoval, Israel's ambassador to the U.S. Baker reportedly proposed to condition the loan guarantees on Israel's agreement not to begin any new construction in the territories. Officials in Washington refused to confirm the reports, insisting that the Baker-Shoval meeting was just the first of a series and that no deal was likely for at least another month...