Word: loaned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cover reproduce a painting that isn't in the show? And why have 22 other choice items gone missing, while the main original sponsors, Mobil and Citibank, pulled out under mainland Chinese pressure as the long process of negotiation and selection was nearing its end? Politics, alas. The loan of these works of art has become a large hot potato in Taipei. And negotiating it proved a diplomatic nightmare for the Met, a four-year walk on eggshells...
...from Berlin's Museum of Early and Pre-History, "the Pushkin Museum will be exhibiting the Schliemann gold without the participation of its owner." German curators have even broached the idea of lending the lesser Schliemann artifacts they still possess to the Pushkin, presumably in exchange for a return loan. But so far there has been no response...
...back on subsidies for Big Business, the U.S. is not "spending billions" to support the U.S. shipbuilding industry. We unilaterally stopped subsidizing commercial shipbuilding 15 years ago. President Clinton and Congress have joined in enacting and implementing an innovative national shipbuilding program that enhances private-sector financing with federal loan guarantees, not direct subsidies like those enjoyed by foreign shipyards. It also deregulates old programs, converts defense shipbuilding to commercial, competitive construction and negotiates to lower foreign subsidies...
CONVICTION OVERTURNED. CHARLES KEATING, 72; on swindling charges in the collapsed Lincoln Savings & Loan case; in Los Angeles. A federal judge threw out the results of Keating's state trial and excoriated Judge Lance Ito for giving flawed instructions to the jury. Keating remains in prison on federal charges...
Democrats, on the other hand, laud the measure as cutting red tape and giving students easier and less-costly access to funds for higher education, advocating a cap at 40 percent of loan volume...