Word: bails
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Tierney, the man who first allegedly assaulted him is presently awaiting a bail hearing, and is charged with armed robbery as well as assault and battery. The alleged assailant who pulled a knife is also under arrest
...Tokyo the scandal threatened to complicate efforts to ease the three-year banking crisis and rescue eight housing lenders that are wobbling beneath $84 billion of bad real estate loans. Just last week a government report urged the use of taxpayer funds to bail out the banking system. That outraged critics like Hatsuko Yoshioka, the head of Japan's powerful Housewives' Association, an umbrella organization of 391 women's civic groups. Yoshioka wants major banks like Daiwa to commit some of their vast resources to shoring up ailing banks and housing lenders. Says she: "Daiwa Bank, although it lost...
Medicine, he discovered, was too unimaginative to hold him. "To quit medicine to become a writer," he once wrote, "struck most people like quitting the Supreme Court to become a bail bondsman." Yet the medical-school years gave him "a fund of experience and a sense of pace. Things happen fast. I still think it's true that any sense of narrative pacing on my part comes out of the emergency room." Indeed, in 1974 he wrote a movie script about his emergency-room experiences but got no takers in Hollywood. Years later, Steven Spielberg took a shine...
LIKE MANY NERVOUS INVESTORS, I'VE BEEN WONDERING whether to bail out of stocks at these levels. So I've been reading the papers more carefully to find out what's really going on. In fact, I've been reading several papers at once. As a result, I'm now convinced that newspapers are no help at all for figuring where stocks are headed tomorrow. They can't even tell us why stocks went up or down yesterday. The New York Times gives an entirely different explanation than the Wall Street Journal, which gives an entirely different explanation from...
...when he was only 35, Vesco set his eyes on Investors Overseas Services, a floundering mutual fund run by playboy-salesman Bernard Cornfeld. Touting his expertise in setting up ICC (by then a conglomerate of several companies) Vesco came in with a $5 million bail-out and was hailed as IOS's savior. Very quickly, however, IOS funds were mysteriously misdirected. By the time the sec was ready to indict Vesco, the financier was gone, having taken his loot and his family, his yacht and his planes, to Costa Rica...