Word: cleanup
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many savings and loan executives and analysts believe the thrift industry needs an even more aggressive cleanup. But Wall contends that the problems are contained mostly in one region. Says he: "Aside from Texas and the other oil- patch states, there is no question that we are well past the trough." In fact, more than 100 of the 280 or so thrifts in Texas are technically insolvent but still lurching along in business. FSLIC will have to clean up that gulch of insolvency as soon as possible if it hopes to maintain confidence in the thrift industry as a whole...
...same might be said of U.S. policy in Honduras. Cleanup crews in Tegucigalpa continue to wash soot off the U.S. embassy annex, attacked two weeks ago by gringophobic students protesting the seizure and extradition to the U.S. of accused Drug Kingpin Juan Ramon Matta Ballesteros. At least two Hondurans died in the riots; damage estimates ranged up to $6 million, and the U.S. indicated that it expects reparations. The Reagan Administration insisted that the attack was orchestrated by drug traffickers, including a military faction sympathetic to Matta...
...Swiss Family Robinson tree house, noting that they periodically wear out and need to be replaced leaf by leaf at a cost of $500,000. As his family strolled the park, he and his eldest son Breck stooped to pick up the rare piece of litter that the cleanup crew had somehow missed...
Decareau added fielding grace to his batting might. Eli cleanup powerhouse Al Kolesar led off the sixth with a fly to short-right center. Decareau, who had been stationed near the line, needed more than his great jump to reach the ball. Risking an error, Decareau dove to his right and snagged the ball just before both landed...
Weston had stifled the Holy Cross offensive since the fifth, but the Crusaders broke loose on the second pitch of the inning. Cleanup batter Paul Pearl sent a hard shot to the left side, which took a bad bounce that baffled Crimson shortstop Dave O'Connell. Joe Noone put Pearl in scoring position with a single up the middle...