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...withdrawal from USX. The take from Icahn's sale was more than $1 billion -- impressive on paper, yet a measly 25% return on his investment over five years. Icahn's continuing problems at TWA apparently cry out for a compress of cold cash from his deep -- yet clearly not bottomless -- pockets...
...present rate, it's a bottomless pit because the regulators have usurped Congress's powers. They've paid out nearly $10 billion to $100,000- plus account holders in failed institutions. Those accounts aren't even insured. The fund can't keep taking hits like that...
NATION: Hold on to your wallet. The bottomless bailout of the S&Ls is getting costlier...
...ominous signs that the bailout may be in trouble pushed public outrage over the S&L crisis to a new level of intensity. Demanded Congressman Toby Roth, a Wisconsin Democrat: "Is this a bottomless pit for taxpayers?" Said colleague Charles Schumer, a Democrat from New York: "By this point it was supposed to have been an issue for accountants and bureaucrats only. Yet it remains the country's No. 1 problem and the public's No. 1 cause for concern...
...point drop in the Dow Jones average -- before recovering later in the day to post an overall 3% loss. "We knew it had to come sooner or later. Many of us just stood there blankly," said a floor dealer. Another market watcher described it as a "bottomless swamp." The market edged upward on Friday as bargain hunters poured in, but a new era of wariness had clearly arrived. THE MARKET THAT WAS DREAMING A DREAM, blared a headline in Nihon Keizai Shimbun, a financial daily...