Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...yelping over firms getting too big to fail is nothing compared with the wailings of privacy activists. They fear that companies engaging in a broad range of financial services will have carte blanche to, say, check bank records before granting health insurance. "This will legalize unprecedented and Orwellian surveillance of the daily lives of bank customers," asserts the U.S. Public Interest Research Group in Washington, one of many consumer groups demanding that Congress kill--or Clinton veto--the bill. The industry says this is all overblown, and lawmakers behind the bill note that specific points in the legislation require full...
...UPSHOT] Too big a victory for the bankers. Hillary Clinton has attacked the legislation as unfair to women and children, and even Republican Henry Hyde said the House bill is too pro-creditor. The Senate may bring it up next year. The House bill had a veto-proof majority...
...WHAT THEY GOT] --HIGH-TECH, HANDS DOWN The law gives firms 90 days to fix glitches before being sued, limits punitive damages against small firms, holds companies liable only for their fair share (big outfits won't pay the whole bill) and limits class-action suits...
Last Friday was supposed to be the day of South High School's big homecoming game and dance. Instead, the Cleveland school was shut down, guarded by police and surrounded by anxious questions. School authorities had uncovered what they described as a possibly racist plot by a group of about a dozen white students who had threatened an armed assault like the one in Littleton, Colo. Police arrested four boys, one 14 and three 15, who authorities said had made plans to go on a killing spree last Friday at the mostly black urban school. The assault...
Authorities and students described the suspects as fitting the now familiar stereotype of alienated teens. "They were known as the stoner types," says Melissa Oliver, 17, a white senior at the school. "They would wear clown makeup all over their eyes, dog collars and big old dirty pants. They were all white; they were loner types...