Word: bombed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...What's wrong with this," DeConcini demanded, "if they're willing to clean up their act?" Replied the agent: "This is a ticking time bomb...
...bomb was allowed to keep ticking for two more years. Fortunately for Keating, FHLBB head Gray was replaced by the very sympathetic M. Danny Wall, a former aide to Utah's Republican Senator Jake Garn. Wall transferred responsibility for Lincoln from San Francisco to Washington. At House Banking Committee hearings on Oct. 17, L. William Seidman, head of the Resolution Trust Corp. and chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, criticized Wall for keeping Lincoln open. As a result, the federally guaranteed cost of paying back Lincoln's depositors went up $1.3 billion, to $2.5 billion. Nationwide, the whole debacle...
Danger is a constant companion of workers in the petrochemical industry. But no one could be prepared for the explosions and the fireball that last week reduced a Phillips Petroleum Co. plastics plant near Houston to a blackened maze. "It was like being inside a bomb," said purchasing agent Clay Howell, who was knocked out of his chair 350 yds. from the blasts. Trying to stop the inferno was "like spitting in the ocean," said Houston fireman Joseph Phillips. Twenty-two employees were either killed or presumed dead...
...bomb exploded in Bogota shortly before midnight Thursday, killing four people, including a child. Three other small bombs went off Thursday night and a fourth was deactivated, Bogota police reported...
Yesterday afternoon, two men on a motorcycle threw a homemade bomb at a clothing store in Medellin and a woman and child were cut by glass from windows shattered by the explosion, police reported. They said the terrorists escaped and the victims were hospitalized in stable condition...