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Goldome: the name was as good as gold through most of the '80s, as the savings bank based in Buffalo rapidly amassed a menu of failing savings banks around the state, with the blessings of business-first federal regulators. But as the go-go years went-went, Goldome turned to dross. The bank inched back toward profitability during 1989, only to face stricter capital requirements from a savvier set of feds in the wake of the S&L crisis. The new rules of the game finally proved Goldome's undoing last week...
...word went around Buffalo that government representatives were booking local hotel rooms while Goldome honchos were emptying their offices, Washington made it official: the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation was seizing Goldome in the biggest bailout of a savings bank in U.S. history. The spoils will go to Buffalo's First Empire State and Albany's KeyCorp, which sought the smallest amount of federal aid; the two offered a plan that could cut costs by canning workers. But Goldome's rescue may still cost U.S. taxpayers up to $1 billion...
...reported, however, since women assume that no one will believe them. "People think marital rape is she has a headache and doesn't want to have sex and she gives in," says Ann Marie Tucker, executive director of the Citizens Committee on Rape, Sexual Assault and Sexual Abuse in Buffalo. "That isn't it at all. The sexual abuse is often part of an ongoing pattern of physical intimidation and violence...
According to a study by researchers at the State University of New York at Buffalo, men who do not have siblings are nearly twice as likely to suffer from hypertension as men who do. In women, the risk jumps by half as much as it does for men. The research, reported in a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine, did not determine whether only children have a increased risk of heart disease. But it may provoke second thoughts among the growing numbers of parents who for reasons of life-style or necessity are choosing to stop...
...unit actually at work is a far cry from seeing it depicted in the current hit thriller The Silence of the Lambs. In the film, agent trainee Clarice Starling, played by Jodie Foster, matches wits and quips with toothsome terror Hannibal ("the Cannibal") Lecter and chases down molting madman Buffalo Bill, right into his creepy lair. In real life, behavioral-science agents remain largely deskbound at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Va., hunkered down in a windowless converted bomb shelter 18 m (60 ft.) below ground. But the film is right on target in one major respect: few people...