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...problem of Texas-size proportions has prompted a rescue effort just as big. Last week the Federal Government disclosed a sweeping plan to shore up one of the weakest spots in the U.S. financial system: the increasingly insolvent Texas savings and loan industry. Hit first by the oil bust, then a real estate collapse, Texas thrifts lost an estimated $5 billion last year. The salvage scheme proposed by the Federal Home Loan Bank Board will drastically reduce the number of independent Texas thrifts, from 281 to less than 180, by forcing % weak institutions into mergers with stronger ones. Cost...
Whether or not they bust the cap, most contenders in both parties will be nearly broke after New Hampshire. Only George Bush and Bob Dole among the Republicans and, to a lesser extent, Democrats Michael Dukakis and thrifty Albert Gore will have a comfortable cash cushion for the Super Tuesday primaries in the South. Even some of the early victors may be in trouble, since the rapacious demands of TV campaigns in the South could outstrip the abilities of their fund raisers. That is the underlying truth of presidential politics: it is extremely difficult to win without early money...
Reynolds has gone back to basics. He played a policeman on TV's Hawk and Dan August and in the films Hustle and Sharkey's Machine. In Rent-a-Cop, he is Church, a good detective in bad odor because of a fatally botched drug bust. There's a psychopath (James Remar, all hollow-eyed menace) on the loose, and only a chatty tart (Liza Minnelli) to lead Church to the killer. While Minnelli wears earrings the size of headlights and puts way too much spin on every line of dialogue, Reynolds relaxes into his role. He has become...
...FUNNIEST SCENE STEALER The blind camel who upstaged Co-Stars Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman in Ishtar, the $40 million-plus bust-of-the-year, and thereby proved that big salaries ($5 million apiece for Beatty and Hoffman) do not necessarily produce either big laughs or big bucks at the box office...
...rise from Privolnoye to power? TIME $presents a candid biography of the year' s most $remarkable figure. -- For a Soviet wife, she is $uncommonly outspoken, glamorous and $controversial. Raisa is also her husband' s secret $weapon. -- A White House scandal unfolds, a $contrary war continues, a boom goes bust, and a $plague rages on. It was a year that Ronald $Reagan would just as soon forget...