The Dutch real estate entrepreneur George Kremer, for one, has lent Restellini masterpieces by Rembrandt, Frans Hals and Pieter de Hooch.
China Construction Bank, for one, has lent the equivalent of 2.8 percent of its regulatory capital to a single railway operator.
Instead of devaluing the product, offering the music for free has lent it an aura of reverse prestige.
The European Central Bank, for instance, has lent €773.2 billion ($1.02 trillion) to banks.The best indicator of a healthy financial system is banks once again lending money to one another.
Mr. Clarkson, for one, has lent his voice recently to the Forza franchise, narrating a virtual-showroom feature of Forza 4, released last fall.
With the retirement of each member of the carbon-paper cohort — my cohort — a certain body of collective knowledge, which for decades has lent the American work product an essential, indefinable, generational something, is eroded a little more.
Mr. Forrester, whose company, BeneCard Services Inc., operates group health benefits programs for employers, has lent his campaign just over $3.1 million and has spent $940,000 in a catch-up campaign against his better-known opponents, leaving him with about $2.2 million.
Shire's tiny Luxembourg finance company in an office with dozens of other corporate occupants — Shire Holdings Europe No2 Sarl, or SHES2 for short — has lent out a total of more than $10bn.
But it ends on a high, for Broecker has lent his name to, and to some degree staked his reputation on, a highly controversial new technology that claims to offer a way out of man-made disaster.
To date his bank (the name comes from the Sanskrit word for "village") has lent out $6 billion, making it one of the world's top microfinance institutions.
