Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Texas, troubled banks are becoming almost as common as tumbleweed. Last week Dallas-based First RepublicBank, the state's largest bank holding company (assets: $33.2 billion), skidded to the brink of failure and was forced to go, ten-gallon hat in hand, to the U.S. Government. Within two days the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation advanced $1 billion to keep First RepublicBank's 73-member banks in business. At the same time, Houston's ailing First City Bancorp, the fourth largest banking company in the state, reported that its plan for returning to financial health was in jeopardy. The problems encountered...
...think Massachusetts and New Jersey have a lot in common, but I don't think they go together on a national ticket," Bradley said...
...clue, people! Go South and roast on a beach with a Margarita in your hand. Why proceed even further North than Cambridge (Yes, it is possible) to shiver in an unheated cabin? But if you still feel the need to spit in the face of common sense, then you are welcome to this trip for $225 and two vital organs. Don't forget your Blue Cross card, though...
...primarily by vaginal intercourse, and it is rampant in the large, overcrowded cities of central and western Africa. Most AIDS researchers, however, now dismiss the suggestion that Africa might serve as a model for the heterosexual spread of AIDS in the U.S. For one thing, promiscuity and prostitution are common in parts of Africa, and general standards of hygiene and medical care are low. Scientists believe widespread venereal diseases in Africa also contribute to the spread of AIDS by causing genital ulcerations that make it easier for the virus to enter the bloodstream. Finally, Africans suffer from more nonvenereal viral...
...Bond. Communications Director Peter Teeley might be tapped for the same position in a Bush White House. Brady marvels at how Bush has kept that potentially combustible group of strong-minded aides from blowing up. "He wants a lot of different and disparate people doing different things for the common purpose," says Brady. "He keeps articulating that idea...