Word: acted
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...staff director of the Banking Committee in 1981, Wall drafted the industry's dream deregulation bill, the Garn-St. Germain Act. That law created a new breed of thrift operator. In came highflyers like Keating who shifted their depositors' money (now insured for $100,000 instead of $40,000) from unexciting residential mortgages to potentially more lucrative but indisputably riskier shopping malls, resort developments, energy-generating windmills. The new breed awarded themselves seven-digit salaries, private jets, hunting preserves and yachts on which to entertain members of Congress. Keating and his associates took $21 million from Lincoln even...
...That type of behavior is not consistent with the way we want our department heads--or anyone else--to act," Danehy said...
...conclusion I came to was that my going had no political or moral repercussions. I was going to experience China's culture and hopefully come to a better understanding of it. My going was not an act of support of the current Communist regime, any more than my not going would have been an act of protest against...
...most of whom are trained in learning disabilities or family problems, often summon specialists to deal with students' "post- traumatic stress syndrome." Teachers and parents, experts say, need to bring fears immediately to the surface after a shooting or other violent episode and allow younger students in particular to act out and talk out the horrors they experienced. Adults are shaken as well. At the Greenwood, S.C., school, Principal Eleanor Rice lost 25 lbs. in the months after a 19-year-old man barged in, shooting at random, killed two pupils and wounded nine other people...
Last week, just a day before the anniversary of his lopsided defeat by George Bush, Dukakis' woes turned more personal. His wife, a recovering alcoholic, was rushed semiconscious to a Boston hospital, where her stomach was pumped. Kitty Dukakis had in a desperate and irrational act downed some rubbing alcohol. These days liquor is forbidden in the Dukakis home. At first Kitty tried to conceal the real story, but two days later, the family doctor released a guarded statement declaring she was suffering from exhaustion and depression. Kitty, the statement explained, had lately been taking antidepressants, a perilous mix with...