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With this bill's substantial funding, we will begin, here and now, to eliminate the ongoing losses of the insolvent firms . . . I'm proud to sign this monster." So said President Bush last week as he stamped into law his long-awaited and much debated savings-and-loan bailout bill. The legislation, / which will rescue ailing thrifts at a cost estimated at $300 billion over the next 30 years, promises to transform the S & L business into a far smaller -- and potentially stronger -- industry. The law will also impose a sweeping reorganization on the Government's thrift regulators: the Federal...
Reading Nice Work simply for the story is a waste of time. The characters are almost entirely one-dimensional. After introducing Vic and Robyn in the first section of the book, Lodge simply turns them loose--they almost automatically begin to lose their disrespect for one another, become friends and wind...
Once over the border, the destitute refugees are met by members of a government task force and assigned to sprawling tent cities to begin the painful process of resettlement. With unemployment in Turkey over 15%, the hardest task is finding them jobs. Even after inducing firms to give the uprooted Turks priority, the government has succeeded in providing employment for fewer than...
...equally troubling -- and more elusive -- issue is whether journalists can cover stories in which they begin with strong personal convictions. A. Kent MacDougall, a journalism professor at the University of California, Berkeley, marched against the Viet Nam War while working on the staff of the Wall Street Journal. Defending his activities in a 1970 Journal op-ed piece, MacDougall wrote, "A well-trained reporter with pride in his craft won't allow his beliefs to distort his stories, any more than a Republican surgeon will botch an appendectomy on a Democrat...
...dialogue is certain to intensify in coming months because of the Supreme Court's recent decision in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services. As state legislatures begin to tackle abortion questions, newsrooms across the country will be faced with the tension between personal opinions and public actions. The large Washington pro-choice rally planned for November could prove to be a major test case for reporters determined to march. One journalist who will not be there: the New York Times's Greenhouse, whose last foray into the public arena originally sparked the debate. Says Greenhouse: "I don't intend to make...