Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...them or get off their backs." Riegle asked, "Where are the losses?" The federal banking agents pointed out that Lincoln was "flying blind on all of their different loans and investments," that there was no underwriting on most loans, that the bank's practices "violated the law, regulations and common sense" and that a $49 million profit reported for 1986 was a result of bookkeeping trickery...
...Common Cause has asked the Senate ethics committee to appoint an outside counsel to investigate the five Senators' efforts for Lincoln and their alliance with Keating, who has been in trouble with federal regulators once before. In 1979 the SEC cited Keating for receiving illegal loans and using corporate funds for the personal benefit of insiders...
...rather than try to seize all of a defendant's business interests. The changes come in response to pending congressional legislation that would weaken RICO laws. Still, the man who helped draft the law, Notre Dame Law School professor Robert Blakey, calls the reforms a "clarification and codification of common sense...
...that both in rhetoric and in reality, Gorbachev has done what Western leaders have been demanding for 21 years: repealed the "Brezhnev Doctrine," under which the Soviets claimed the right to provide "military aid to a fraternal country" (translation: invade it) whenever there was "a threat to the common interests of the camp of socialism" (translation: a threat to Soviet dominance...
...Spectors' car swerves to avoid a boy who has darted out into the road, and nice Michael (James Woods) mutters to his nice wife Linda (Glenn Close), "Some people should not be allowed to have children!" He is voicing a common belief that those who are having the most kids can't raise them, and those who can afford kids aren't having them. O.K. then. Who should raise the first generation of 21st century teenagers? The healthy, efficient yuppies, who just might be able to fit a child into their Filofax schedules? Or the chain-smoking unmarrieds...