Word: breaches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cambridge University is suing James Stirling for negligence and breach of contract in connection with an internationally acclaimed building that he designed for the University more than 15 years...
...they drilled a hole in the floor to the bank's data-processing center. Dropping through, they approached their principal objective: the two doors leading to the bank's 186 safe deposit boxes in the basement of the building. The first iron-barred door was easy to breach; the second, a bulky steel safe door with multiple locks, had to be burned through. Police discovered tangerine peels on the floor by the gates, left there by the burglars, who snacked as they spent hours scorching their way into the vault with acetylene torches...
...Party pledged themselves to four more years of Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's government and rode his coattails to victory in 1980. Then the F.D.P. started maneuvering toward a coalition with the Christian Democrats. By violating the trust of the voters, the F.D.P. displayed a lack of character. This breach, more than any yearning for stability, has caused our political emotions to rise...
...good lousy bums." That is not the language of diplomacy. It is the language of honesty, such a novel commodity on the international exchanges that the White House feigned unhappiness that the broadcasters had violated the President's privacy. In truth, Reagan handlers were genuinely concerned about the breach of faith because the next time it might be damaging. "No-good lousy bums" is right out of Wrigley Field and the 1930s, naughty but lovable. Remember Richard Nixon's tapes and all those four-letter words about out-of-the-way parts and functions of the body...
...Fidelity Savings & Loan Association of San Francisco. If upheld by the Federal Reserve Board, as expected, the takeover would mark the first time feder al regulators have allowed a bank holding company to cross both state and industry lines to buy a thrift operation. This would be a major breach in the rapidly falling wall that now blocks interstate banking...