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The Rudyard project is actually a satellite thing for the Museum of the Rockies. We're calling it the Rudyard field station, and we're lending them lots and lots of specimens and all kinds of things.

Predatory lending is like a cancer that needs to be wiped out. Congressional programs that would roll back state laws are going in the wrong direction.

Predatory lending is a cancer that should be wiped out. We've reached a new stage in the debate over predatory lending laws. It's clear that state laws improve substantially on federal law and protect people who would otherwise be in danger of losing thousands of dollars - or even their homes.

Prosper gives people the opportunity to take back the marketplace for consumer credit. By providing the platform and tools for an efficient marketplace created by and for people, Prosper aims to make consumer lending more financially and socially rewarding for everyone.

Raising the lending rate is the first tightening of the controls.

Our customers know that lending a hand to community efforts is a very important part of who we are. By giving customers the power to direct donations, we help them become more involved in the donation process and we learn more about what charitable organizations are important to them.

After many years of decline, I am pleased to tell you we are starting to see volume improvement in lending and deposits. Our businesses are continuing to perform as expected.

After holding hearings to get input from Missourians, I led the fight to pass legislation that protects seniors from predatory lending in the mortgage industry. I stood up against efforts that would make it harder for seniors to vote, and battled telemarketers bent on defrauding seniors.

During 'Jersey Boys,' I discovered one of the most rewarding ways to use your goodwill is to motivate fans and friends into lending support to charity.

Dealers should have no problem lending you the car to have it inspected. If a private owner is reluctant, offer to follow him to the shop to have it inspected.

Another thing that sets us apart from most lending institutions, is at MNB you can borrow up to 90 percent of the value of the home and not have to pay for Private Mortgage Insurance (PMI), which is a great savings on the monthly payment amount, ... We also encourage people concerned with their credit situation to come in and speak with us; our lending decisions are not based on credit scoring only.

As has been reported, lending competition is heating up. It seems the market is gradually coming to doubt if all banks have bright earnings outlooks from an expected end to quantitative easing.

As an individual investor, you're basically lending to the government for an additional 30 years compared to the 10-year note, but getting no extra risk premium. That being said, there will be structural demand for the new bond.

Banks need to tighten their current lending IT infrastructure to address this fast growing market, as technology can be a crucial differentiator that provides a competitive edge.

As part of Paul Hastings global corporate strategy, we are expanding our transactional capabilities in all regions in which we operate, especially throughout our offices in London, Milan and Paris. Keith Wilson's years of experience and expertise in asset lending complements our international finance practice and will allow us to further meet our clients' needs.

That often goes a long way toward that company lending a sympathetic ear.

You should also know who you are lending your car to. We've had people who said they loaned their car a neighbor and called because they haven't been seen again. (Officers) will ask what the neighbor's name is and they have no idea what the last name is. It doesn't happen often but it does happen.

This is the first step to normalizing financial policy. In addition to the steady recovery, overall we're seeing more relaxed lending behavior, so this wouldn't affect the economy.

Although mortgage rates have declined over the past three weeks, mortgage applications volumes have continued to fall. This is partially due to the flat yield curve and partially due to tighter lending standards by financial institutions.

This lending has been lucrative to banks here. The housing market has been vibrant.

They're lending to anybody and everybody, in addition to what they already do, which is a lot of lending with poor default records.

The relative stability of U.S. foreclosure inventory ended in December. With lending institutions closing their books at the end of the year, it is somewhat common for the foreclosure inventory to rise. It is premature to predict that December's inventory indicates a foreclosure crisis in the U.S.; however, this rise in inventory, which is higher than in recent years, should be closely monitored as 2006 begins.

As you know, in the latter part of 2008 and early 2009, the Federal Reserve took extraordinary steps to provide liquidity and support credit market functioning, including the establishment of a number of emergency lending facilities and the creation or extension of currency swap agreements with 14 central banks around the world.

It's a bad deal for community lending. We've looked at Sovereign's existing lending in the market - from Philadelphia to Boston - and we found that in all of the markets we've looked at they disproportionately deny credit to people of color, African Americans and Latinos. Where credit is granted, they are much more likely to impose higher costs on people of color.

It was symbolic. The long decline in bank lending has come to an end.

It is standard practice for CIA's Office of Inspector General an aggressive, independent watchdog to look into assertions that mention agency officers. That should in no way be seen as lending credibility to any allegation.

It is standard practice for CIA's Office of Inspector General - an aggressive, independent watchdog - to look into assertions that mention agency officers. That should in no way be seen as lending credibility to any allegation.

It raises questions. How could this be in the best interest of the business? If it's not in the best interest of the business, why is the company lending its staff and resources to the chairman for his personal use?

It's true that monetary policy was too lax for too long, and the government encouraged lending to people who were unlikely to repay their loans.

For 30 years scientists have suspected that gene regulation has played a central role in human evolution. In addition to lending support to the idea that changes in gene regulation are a key part of our evolutionary history, these new results help to define exactly which regulatory factors may be important, at least in certain tissues. This helps open the door to a functional dissection of the role of gene regulation during the evolution of modern humans.

It makes sense to look overseas as I doubt there'll be much demand for lending in Japan.

It's glorious - everyone wants to help New Orleans so a lot of people are playing. People like Bruce Springsteen lending their support, that puts a big stamp of approval on it.

It's hard to perpetrate fraud-for-profit without some kind of third- party professional being involved, whether an appraiser, loan officer, real estate broker -- someone to extract the money from the lending channel.

It's our experiment. We can easily and cheaply borrow money from Chinese banks, but we used foreign lending because we want to familiarize ourselves with the practice of international financing.

Despite all the rate hikes, the (Federal Reserve's) overnight lending rate is still less than inflation.

Earnings may surprise on the upside because of stronger than anticipated credit growth. There's been a very significant and sustained pick-up in business lending to fund capital investment.

The bigger bubble is actually in the financing of homes. Mortgage lenders have loosened their lending standards. Rather than telling a lot of would-be buyers, particularly in places like California, that they don't qualify, they're coming up with all sorts of so-called innovative alternative financing.

The ballooning inventory of available foreclosure properties should be an area of concern among lending institutions. This situation is good news, however, for those who track and invest in the foreclosure market.

The bank normally works by lending money to governments. We have tended to focus on one country at a time.

The auction is lending some more weakness to the general tone of our market that started with the housing number this morning and this is not helping.

Strong lending results, respectable deposit growth, well-behaved credit trends and excellent results from some of our fee businesses have not been enough to overcome the performance in spread-based revenues.

It's important for society to understand the tremendously positive impact businesses and chambers of commerce have on local communities. The private sector is stepping up to make life better, not just by doing what it does best - making products, delivering services and creating jobs - but also by funding charities and relief services, encouraging employees to engage in philanthropic activities, and lending its know-how to solve public sector problems.

It is the powerhouse in the adjustable-rate lending business in the United States. They'll make one out of every eight adjustable-rate mortgages in the entire country.

This is just our way of lending a helping hand. We know there are a lot of displaced families out there and we want to do our part to help.

On average, customers utilize an additional 1.57 products or services from their home equity lender, and the number increases substantially among lenders with satisfied customers. With this in mind, cross- selling products can be extremely beneficial for lending institutions that have been successful in satisfying their customers.

A gain in lending may be signaling that people are rushing to borrow before the central bank shifts policy. That's bond negative.

After the Versailles treaty, the U.S. could have chosen to become a global economic loan shark, but we didn't, and let a lot of the tab slide. So not all lending and borrowing is bad.

It's not about lending a name to a project. It's truly creating a vision we've had for years. We have a substantial amount of our personal income in this.

The large German banks now seem to be more interested in competing with Anglo-Saxon banks in international markets than in nurturing their long-standing domestic lending business.

The Fed was given control of margin lending in response to the excess speculation in the 1920s,

In many ways, we're just the friendly neighbor next door lending a hand to someone whose own friendly neighbors are too far away to help.

If Japan continues to have a stock rally for the next year, the bank's earnings can only get better. What we want to see now is how its lending business can improve.

In this time of crisis, the Coast Guard is a key agency, lending their strength and expertise to the Gulf Coast in the face of dramatic destruction.

In addition, when the index was created in 1981 the typical lending criteria, assumptions and mortgage instruments were considerably different from what they are today.

In addition we have to make progress on the restructuring of lending by state-run institutions, personnel costs and the government's balance sheet. We need to have a basic plan on these three issues within about a month.

In 2005, lending markets continued to support deals in the ARM industry and buyers were particularly aggressive, causing a notable rise in deal values for well-run, niche ARM companies; especially those in the debt buying sector.

In addition, modest improvements in aggregate demand and bank lending amid the sustained slowdown in liquidity growth imply limited demand-side pressures on prices.

Higher rates may dent demand for loans because lending growth in Japan is only just starting to recover.

Behind these monthly fluctuations, mortgage lending is on a stable trend, though not as high as 2004 levels.

Because the inspector general's review is ongoing, it would be inappropriate to discuss specific matters that may fall within that review. The fact that the inspector general is looking into something should in no way be seen as lending credibility to any assertion.

Good news is that banks' lending attitude seems to be gradually becoming far more accommodative than in the previous recoveries.

You can always make a loan at a bank if you can show sufficient evidence that you don't need it.

When money is free, the rational lender will keep on lending until there is no one else to lend to.

I, who ne'erWent for myself a begging, go a borrowing,And that for others. Borrowing's much the sameAs begging; just as lending upon usuryIs much the same as thieving.

Borrowing is not much better than begging.

To borrow scarce is better than to beg; As lending, lending upon interest, Scarce better is than stealing.

Healthy mortgage lending data show that housing market activity extended its recent firmer performance in December. This is also borne out by the latest survey evidence consistently showing increased buyer interest.

Go Red For Women is grateful that so many celebrities are lending their time to advance our important women's health mission. We are truly honored that so many notable women contributing their time to support such a noble cause.

Government borrowing is having the effect of crowding out lending that could be made to the private sector,

Lend only what you can afford to lose.

Let us lend cheerfully, for the time is pretty sure to come when we will wish to borrow.

Washington continues to encourage ever more ill-considered lending in a misguided attempt to stave off needed market corrections. The currently proposed combination of a nationwide infrastructure spending orgy plus tax-cut bribes does nothing to remedy that.

The business of a bank is to lend money; which amounts, nowadays, to lending credit.

You could all be there right now lending your services, but 48 hours have passed since we made this offer, and we have received absolutely no response,

The underlying rise in mortgage lending was close to trend in January, suggesting stronger growth towards the end of 2005 may not have established a sustained upturn in lending.

This is more of a contemporaneous indicator -- if business picks up and firms find they need to stock more inventory, we will see lending pick up.

So you know, everyone points out Greece's default record, but the history of a lot of sovereign nations is not a good one when it comes to lending them money.

The increase in bank lending is a sign that the pace of increase in liquidity could grow too fast. That means that the Bank of Japan has got support for ending its super-loose monetary policy.

A lot of lending is going on in the form of dollars, which is reflecting international interest rates.

The chestnut that's out there in the industry that they did this to finance their lending business - that doesn't wash. For me, there are more unanswered questions than there are answered questions.

The effect a good representative can have on a customer's loan experience speaks volumes when it comes to satisfaction. The process of securing an equity loan can be complicated, so the loan officer can be seen as the 'saving grace' by a customer whose loan process has experienced some bumps in the road. We find that a representative who is courteous, friendly and keeps the customer well informed throughout the process can have a major impact on how the customer views the lending firm as a whole.

The central bank's target is steady and reasonable. The low inflation pressure leaves room for the government to bolster lending to key manufacturing companies as well as mid- and small-sized firms.

The figures are a sign that bank lending will probably start to show year-on-year rises in the January-March quarter.

The first byword is that lending to family and friends on a handshake is probably one of the most speculative investments you'll ever make.

The comparative weakness of the mortgage market in the first half of last year means that current indicators of activity, i.e. gross lending and approvals, are much stronger than they were 12 months earlier when the housing market was somewhat subdued, but they are by no means yet approaching the levels of activity seen in 2004.

The lending industry is doing what it can to get a piece of the shrinking pie. You're going to see more aggressive offers in the coming year.

Lending books to other people is merely a shrewd form of housecleaning.

Whenever I feel I'm working in a groove it's invariably because I feel I am being the benefactor in the situation rather than the beneficiary. I am sharing my art with others, lending my craft to theirs, interest-free with no IOU.

If you'd lose a troublesome visitor, lend him money.

Old time, in whose banks we deposit our notes, Is a miser who always wants guineas for groats; He keeps all his customers still in arrears By lending them minutes and charging them years

People cannot live by lending money to one another.

A money-lender--he serves you in the present tense; he lends you in the conditional mood; keeps you in the conjunctive; and ruins you in the future.