Word: aid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...matter of pure logic, what the war wimps did (or, rather, didn't do) two decades ago says nothing about the merits of aid to the Nicaraguan contras or Star Wars or other issues today. But it does say something important about a person's character if he hasn't lived his life in accordance with his professed values. And it obviously tests his commitment to those values as well. That's why the political-robotics technicians of both parties expend so much energy staging tableaux of loving family life, though strictly speaking the number of one's children, grandchildren...
...Soviet forces remain in place until late this year or early 1989, as the Kremlin indicated last week, they will almost certainly guarantee Najibullah's survival through next winter. Moscow continues to supply the regime with a bountiful flow of weapons and ammunition, and has announced long-term aid and economic agreements...
...will be merged and turned over to an investment group led by William Gibson, an executive vice president at Chicago's Continental Illinois bank, for a token $48 million. To attract the investors and revive the S and Ls, the Bank Board agreed to provide financial aid that may run as high as $1.3 billion over the next decade...
...largest rescue in its history. It plans to merge eight nearly moribund Texas S and Ls -- including Dallas' Sunbelt Savings, which lost $1.2 billion in the first three months of 1988 alone -- into one financial organization with assets of $6.9 billion. The Government will provide $2.5 billion of aid initially and possibly as much as $5.5 billion over the next ten years. Although the Bank Board had several offers to buy all eight S and Ls, it determined they were in such bad financial and legal shape that it would ultimately prove less expensive for the Government to run them...
...billion, down from $18.3 billion in January, and the fund is likely to lose an additional $2 billion by the end of the year. FDIC Chairman William Seidman told Congress two weeks ago that at least one and possibly two major banks may soon need substantial federal aid. Industry experts predict that the next big institution in need of rescue may be Dallas' Mcorp, the second largest banking company in Texas...