Word: controllable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Doctorow has adopted Bathgate's code, he amazes with his dexterity. From a Saratoga racetrack to a Bronx orphanage, he manipulates scene and language, and his freedom of form is the product and proof of great control...
Reports that a member of the city's Board of Zoning Appeal (BZA) may have repeatedly violated one of the city's rent control ordinances have spurred several city residents to seek her suspension from the post...
...January, an official of the city's rent control board ruled that Rickard had illegally converted the building from five rent-controlled units into two condominiums and recommended that the board pursue criminal charges against...
Seidman said talks with investors will resume after the FDIC takes control of the remaining insolvent S & Ls. But since the FDIC said it would then allow only deals that were supported by the cash of the FSLIC -- a fund that is currently bankrupt -- more Government-assisted sales would seem unlikely. The FDIC might also try to renegotiate some of last year's sweet deals...
...overall losses would have been vastly smaller if Government regulators had seized control of insolvent S & Ls years ago. In 1983 the cost of the bailouts was estimated at only $10 billion. But the FSLIC never had enough cash simply to close down the thrifts and pay off the depositors. The Bank Board lobbied Congress for more money, but the politically powerful thrift industry consistently opposed such requests, along with almost any proposal to rein...