Word: bring
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Wall estimates that for now FSLIC has the money it needs for closing and merging insolvent thrifts. Along with $10.8 billion in new borrowing authority approved by Congress last year, FSLIC will have enough income from deposit- insurance premiums and other sources to bring its rescue resources to $20 billion through 1991. That is only somewhat less than its liabilities for all 510 of the U.S. thrifts that are considered insolvent under strict accounting rules...
...year of campaigning, is on record as making just two unalterable if-elected commitments. Neither of them loomed large on the agenda of any special- interest group, nor did they spark a passionate reaction from the voters. But they are emblematic of the mind-set that Dukakis would bring to the presidency. During a debate before the New Hampshire primary, Dukakis the righteous reformer vowed that the first bill he would send to Congress would be one limiting the influence of political-action committees. Even more characteristic is the carrot that Dukakis dangled before Iowa voters: a promise to hold...
Spurring economic development would be not only a touchstone of a Dukakis Administration but also a likely reflection of the peripatetic quality that he would bring to the presidency. "Dukakis would get a lot of things going very fast," says Frank Keefe, the Massachusetts secretary of administration and finance, who has worked for the Governor since 1975. "What he'd spend lots of his time doing is what he likes best: traveling around the country, convening task forces, talking with Governors and mayors, promoting regional economic development." Longtime advisers predict that Dukakis would chafe at the constraints of life...
Members of Black sororities and fraternities"feel as though when they bond together they willbe overcoming racism. This is their way offighting it. Really, that only serves tosegregate, not bring together," Eden Williamssays. "I think interracial contact is the way toovercome racism...
Gonzalez said he hoped that the changes he has begun within Spain will help the nation assume more responsibility for the security of Europe and to bring the world closer to a multipolar balance of power...