Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...efforts to rescue the savings-and-loan industry. Sununu pulled out an ad the bankers were running trying to scare depositors away from S & Ls and into banks. "I take it, then," he growled, "this sort of thing will stop." When a utility boss complained that Bush's clean-air proposals would drive up his electricity rates, Sununu retorted that the utility already enjoyed rates below the national average, which the Government subsidized...
Bush's cautious, calibrated style has made for largely surefooted policy. Despite a sluggish first four months, the President has launched initiatives on difficult issues -- savings and loans, clean air, arms control -- that he might have ducked. He has kept a Democratic Congress off balance and has mollified the conservative wing of his own party. If he has hit no grand slams, neither has he committed any egregious errors. "I'm reasonably pleased where, at the end of six months, things are," Bush told TIME. "I'm not relaxed about it. I'm not in an everything's fine mode...
...normal for someone in real estate to loan, buy and sell," Walsh said. "I have a right to conduct business. By law, it's clean and I've done everything openly...
...clean edges and began to work thickly in oils instead of acrylic. The grid of Scully's paintings in the '80s speaks of two things: a desire for large order and a sense of impending slippage, as though the columns and lintels of paint had to be constantly tested, as though their pinning could come apart just as the painter turned his back. They are not smoothly designed but look somewhat improvised, like the sides of large huts. They are very "New York" paintings, but the city they evoke is not the foreigner's imagined grid of perfect planes; rather...
WORLD: Angry voters in Japan warn the ruling party to clean...