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During his confirmation hearings, Ryan, a former Labor Department lawyer, readily conceded that he knows little about the thrift industry or the S&L cleanup, the cost of which Comptroller General Charles Bowsher estimated last week at up to $500 billion. If Ryan was in an awkward position, so were some of his Senate inquisitors, who are themselves under a cloud in the S&L mess. They are accused of favoritism toward thrift owner Charles Keating Jr., who made sizable contributions to their campaigns -- and who was a rapt spectator at the Senate hearings...
FIRST-YEAR students choosing concentrations in the coming week face more than a tough decision. Some may have to deal with presumptuous application questions, awkward essays and even an interview--all to decide three years in advance whether to write a thesis...
...John H. Flood (D-Canton), chair of the Taxation Committee, said he has also not received any indication that Keverian is committed to resolving the deficit soon. But Flood added that the speaker has been put in an awkward position by Dukakis...
...unusual protagonist for Anita Brookner, the * acclaimed British novelist who won the 1984 Booker McConnell Prize for Hotel du Lac. Most often she focuses her exacting eye on women, solitary spinsters picking their way through uneventful but carefully examined lives. Lewis Percy is reminiscent of all of those awkward, hapless English twits, those Lucky Jims who comically court failure in the farcical novels of Kingsley Amis, William Boyd and David Lodge. But though it has brisk satirical asides, Lewis Percy is a halfhearted comedy. We cannot sympathize for long with so ineffectual a hero, but Lewis is too decent...
Gorbachev's softened stance on unification surprised the Bush Administration, which until now had counted on Moscow's disapproval to slow down the unification parade. And it came at an awkward time for George Bush, who proposed last week that the U.S. reduce its troops in Europe from 305,000 to 225,000. As Democratic Senator Albert Gore of Tennessee put it, "If all Soviet troops are pulled out of Eastern Europe and East and West Germany are unified, then how long are you going to keep American troops in Europe...