Word: lend
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Specifically, protestors say the stringent conditions the two organizations impose on countries to which they lend money cause increases in unemployment, poverty and environmental destruction in those nations...
...conflict because of Washington's concerns. Although Bin Laden might find a sympathetic ear among some of the more hard-line ethnic-Albanian nationalists unhappy with the outcome in Kosovo, he hasn't had much access, and although they're Muslims, Albanian culture doesn't easily lend itself to Bin Laden's fundamentalist brand of Islam." But the undertow of discontent on Capitol Hill about the open-ended U.S. troop commitment in the troubled region may be prompting Washington to turn over every rock, just in case...
...trip as it played out, because the Pope is not just a religious pilgrim. He is one of the world's great moral authorities, whose support or very presence (or even the brush of his lips on a proffered pot of soil as he visits a new land) can lend validity to states, policies and causes. Moreover, he heads an entity with its own foreign policy goals: from a desire to protect the religious sites and fast-vanishing Christians of the Holy Land, to long-held support of a Palestinian homeland, to the recent rapprochement with Israel--goals that...
...University and the health care company have no official ties, although Robert H. Ebert, then-dean of Harvard Medical School, persuaded the University to lend its name to Harvard Pilgrim when it was created...
Good foundations for foreign investments are hard to come by in Russia these days, at least according to recent headlines that lend new meaning to the term hostile takeover. From Vyborg to Vladivostok, court fights over shareholders' rights have even led to bloody clashes between riot troops and local workers. "If you want to empty a boardroom on Wall Street," quips an American investment banker in Moscow, "just say the word Russia." For too many foreigners, investing in Russia has proved to be tortuous and hugely expensive. Just ask the folks at BP Amoco. Last fall the company nearly...