Word: arms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last week the General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, issued a harsh report accusing Bush's Justice Department of failing to put enough resources into investigating the criminal dealings that resulted in the collapse of hundreds of S&Ls. Nearly 2,800 financial institutions went bankrupt in 1981 and 1992, with losses that could eventually total $300 billion. The Justice Department has almost 10,000 investigations under way, and its defenders point out that it has so far won 95% of its prosecutions for S&L fraud...
...that as it may, there was nothing arm's length about the raucous tabloid wars that erupted in New York City last week. On the one arm was the hard- driving Zuckerman, a millionaire real estate developer who also publishes the weekly newsmagazine U.S. News & World Report and the monthly Atlantic. On the other was another big-bucks businessman, Steven Hoffenberg, who has announced his intention to buy the News's competition, the failing New York Post. With the Post thus gasping for breath, Zuckerman leaped for its jugular and in a few days hired away its three top editors...
...pulling males and females into long-term partnership, which was essential to child rearing. On open grasslands, one parent would have a hard -- and dangerous -- time handling a child while foraging for food. "If a woman was carrying the equivalent of a 20-lb. bowling ball in one arm and a pile of sticks in the other, it was ecologically critical to pair up with a mate to rear the young," explains anthropologist Helen Fisher, author of Anatomy of Love...
...sister's comrade, who lost an arm at the front, gave the eulogy," the man continues as Artyom starts up Prospekt Mira, a broad avenue leading away from downtown. "She reminisced about fighting to save the Soviet motherland. She sounded so old-fashioned; people stared at her like she was a dinosaur. But she couldn't help herself. She still believes...
...East Side to lunch, Mrs. Clinton moved on to the 50th-floor conference room of the Chemical Bank building, where she gulped Diet Dr Pepper and deposed health-care experts. Alternately, she continued calling key members of Congress to pay the kind of respects that will make the eventual arm twisting easier. Along the way she remembered that it would be possible to fit more people into the President's first official dinner on Sunday night and told an aide to send out more invitations. By then it was time to have a long chat with Chelsea about her second...