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Wall was facing a deadline. On Dec. 31, the enormously generous tax benefits that could attract new investors would expire. So he mounted a closeout sale, adding profit guarantees and other subsidies for all comers. The big-money boys came running. In just four months, his agency unloaded some 114 shattered thrifts -- 71 in December alone -- at a cost to taxpayers calculated at nearly $70 billion...
Harvard's NCAA fate will be determined long before the official regular-season closeout against the Elis rolls around, however. Bids will be sent out Sunday--as the Crimson returns from a weekend junket to the University of Tampa Tournament...
Confronting Mulloy with the documents in a closed hearing, Rogers asked how this dismissal of a crucial difficulty could happen. Mulloy replied that the closeout had been a mistake, "a failure of the human being within the system." Snapped Rogers: "It was a little more than that. It's a failure of the whole system if one letter and one human being can close out a constraint that has been concerning you for many years." Rogers asked Russell why he had recommended the closure. "Because I was asked to," Russell answered. "Well," commented Rogers with biting sarcasm, "that explains...
Koren is untroubled by the customary Western distinctions between art and handicraft. "In the dreamlike language of fashion," he believes, "a people are communicating the current ideals, values and aspirations of their culture." That idea may be refuted; it may be bought wholesale, on time or at closeout; but the best place to window-shop while thinking it over is this shrewd and knowing introduction to a closet revolution...
...tremendous cultural and historical loss for the City, and this vacation is your last chance to visit the old legend. I mean this is it, the clearance sale, the closeout, the end of the affair. No more movie/stage spectacles. It's now or never. The last double bill, which will run through April 12, is "Crossed Swords," starring Rex Harrison, a film based on Mark Twain's "The Prince and the Pauper," and the last Great Easter Show...