Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...charge that top officials have looted the S and L for their own gain, former Senior Vice President John Hill, 40, pleaded guilty in March to a single count of conspiracy. According to court papers, Hill had arranged "paid female companionship" at a 1985 company board meeting in Solana Beach, Calif., by flying in two prostitutes from Dallas and hiring as many as ten others locally. Vernon Savings picked...
Unlike its ritzy neighbors, Palm Beach and Boca Raton, Lantana is a sleepy, unassuming little town on Florida's east coast. On closer inspection, however, the place has subtle marks of distinction. Like Dawn's News & Smoke Shop, where the daily selection of newspapers from around the world rivals that of any five-star hotel in London, New York City or Tokyo. The papers are bought and avidly read by a rambunctious colony of 200-plus British and Commonwealth expatriates who make their homes in Lantana and the surrounding area...
While attending Harvard, Strauss was an economics concentrator, and he graduated from the University of Virginia Business School in 1987. He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gerald R. Strauss of Buffalo, his sister, Anne E. Strauss, and his grandmother, Mrs. Ralph E. Weber, of Palm Beach...
...small seaside resort near the Vietnamese border, the ruins of churches, schools and villas rise from encroaching jungle. The narrow road leading into the town, once a weekend retreat for Phnom Penh's well-off, is choked with underbrush. Here and there on the nearly deserted beach, small groups picnic -- families, a gathering of friends. A song of the '60s drifts from a tape recorder, bringing with it the memory of better times...
...attitudes toward the justice system last January, only 28% of the blacks questioned felt that the courts are evenhanded toward white and black defendants. Such sentiments may reflect, in part, black discontent with the handling of several recent racially charged events in New York City, including the Howard Beach and Bernhard Goetz cases. These impressions also point to a deep-rooted distrust of the system, engendered by years of legally sanctioned injustice against blacks and other minorities...