Word: bushes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...persistent criticism of the Bush plan is that it fails to provide as much money for the bailout as will eventually be needed. By some estimates, the cost of cleaning up the industry could exceed $300 billion over 30 years, with taxpayers picking up two-thirds of the bill. The FHLBB reported last week that the 2,938 Government-insured thrifts in the U.S. posted losses of $3.4 billion during the first quarter of the year. Observes Alex Sheshunoff, an industry analyst: "There's a lot more bad news to come." In the S & L industry, unfortunately, the most pessimistic...
...solitude and a simple routine: they doze in the mornings, wallow in mudholes in the heat of the afternoon, and feed in the evening. It turns out that south Texas not only looks like Africa, it apparently tastes like it too. The rhinos have been thriving on a local bush called huisache (pronounced wee-satch this side of the border), a relative of the African acacia. Macho and his mate Chula chomp down about 40 lbs. of it a day. The two now live in separate pastures because on Feb. 28 Chula gave birth to their first offspring: a healthy...
...their friends near the rhino pastures. On a balmy spring evening, lightweight tables and chairs are set out under a mesquite tree, just as they would be in an African hunting camp in the shadow of Kilimanjaro. Marge, a silver-haired Texas beauty dressed for the bush in denim and turquoise, lays on a simple feast of guacamole and chicken- salad sandwiches. Calvin uncorks bottles of fine South African grand...
...professor Jeffrey Hadden of the University of Virginia, characterized the impending shutdown as "totally anticlimactic." Though it raised a lot of fuss, the Moral Majority never developed into much of a grass-roots organization. More important, the nation's broader conservative tide, which lifted Ronald Reagan and then George Bush into the White House, left Falwell with nobody much to oppose. Says Hadden: "It's hard to sustain political activity when you don't have an enemy...
...George Bush was under fire as "the environmentalist" President in campaign pledge only. But last week he managed to confound his critics. He broke a decade-long impasse by proposing major steps to reduce acid rain, smog caused by auto exhaust and toxic chemicals discharged into the air. In a political tour de force, he managed to draw at least grudging acceptance from almost all sides. Environmentalists were pleased that the plan met their minimum goals. Industry grumbled about heavy costs: $14 billion to $19 billion annually by the end of the year 2000. But utility executives sighed with relief...