Word: cliffes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that Bankers Trust not only was insured by, but owned 45% of American Savings. Heavy withdrawals began in the other nonfederally insured S & Ls, and by late June had developed into a full-fledged run on deposits. After conferring with Treasury Secretary William Simon, Mississippi Governor Charles ("Cliff') Finch proposed legislation freezing most business-no withdrawals, no loans-at the nonfederally insured S & Ls. The legislature hustled the bill through in its first emergency session since Hurricane Camille devastated the Gulf Coast...
...driver pulled off where three cars were parked on the side of the road, just before a curve that cut into the cliff above. "Follow the path," he said. He handed me a baggie full of his homegrown. "Straight and narrow." (People are always screaming about the dangers of hitchhiking. Why, back in seventh grade they even showed us a Highway Patrol film about murdered hitchers. The truth is that anybody who'd pick up travelers as scruffy as most hitchhikers are has got to have an ungodly quotient of Good Samaritanism--especially in North Carolina, where the only other...
Over and over, flip-flopping down, sideways, fishtailing-swandiving, Reggie Younging down down down. On your back, watching the sky and the two hawks seesawing on the updraft off the cliff, and the rude shock of the pool's liquid ice closing out the sky, and the clawing back up out of the water and up the trail. Nerves on millions of little trampolines, many falling off and breaking their necks. Tingles, rushes and fades...
Besides Bolles, twelve persons associated with some of the land fraud scandals have died over the past six years, all before they could testify. Five died in two separate plane crashes, one drove off a cliff, another succumbed to carbon monoxide poisoning in his automobile. Three suffered fatal heart attacks and another died of cancer. One was gunned down 24 hours before he was to testify in a grand jury investigation...
...doubles, Waldman and Cliff Adler downed Tesar and Renner, 7-6, 7-6 in a match that took almost two hours to complete...