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...California Anatomy of a Bank Run The fall of IndyMac, the second largest financial institution in U.S. history to collapse, alarmed depositors and caused a run on the bank akin to the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s. How the panic spread...
...wasn't impressed. "Beijing at the time was a provincial city. It was not that interesting," Pettis says. "Bands could only get an audience to the extent that they copied New York or London." Pettis, who ran a club in New York City in the early 1980s, decided to open his own place. "I figured, if we do it, after four or five years we're going to get an audience, and there will be an explosion in Beijing," he says. "We were shocked. Two years later, I would say that Beijing is one of the top five...
...This is rectifying, if you will, or recognizing a situation that probably should have changed a long time ago," said William A. Graham, the dean of the Divinity School who co-taught a course on Islam with Asani in the 1980s...
...Jeffords and Chafee were members of a dying breed - the liberal New England Republican. McCain, on the other hand, was a Western conservative from Arizona who had gone to Congress as a Reagan Republican. But after the searing experience of getting entangled in the Keating Five scandal in the 1980s, McCain had grown increasingly independent, pursuing campaign-finance reform and other causes that made his fellow Republicans doubt his ideological convictions...
...year the city built a water main that ended just short of the neighborhood, and had watched as the East Muskingum Water Authority built new water lines and increased county water efforts in surrounding areas while their requests went unanswered. When he built his house in the early 1980s, Kennedy says, his water request was denied. He can't even remember the number of times he asked the city's service director for help, only to have nothing happen. Then a house went up next door. A white family moved in, and one day Kennedy saw his new neighbors watering...