Word: controllable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...centerpiece of Beebe's empire was AMI, his company based in Shreveport, La., which invested in banks and thrifts, insurance companies, motels and nursing homes. Beebe and his colleagues at one time or another held control of nearly 40 banks and S & Ls, through which they allegedly made insider "back- scratching" loans to finance one another's high-risk moneymaking schemes. Their tower of debt collapsed in 1986, brought down by the energy bust and tenacious federal investigators. Having pleaded guilty to two counts of fraud in 1988, Beebe, 61, now washes laundry in a federal prison in Texarkana, Texas...
...network of banks and thrifts to finance ventures in which he held hidden interests. "He saw the thrifts as one big gold mine, an endless pit of money," says Joseph Cage, a U.S. Attorney in Louisiana who prosecuted Beebe. Rather than exert his ownership outright, Beebe often held control behind the scenes. One of his tactics was to stake friends like the high-flying financier Don Dixon, who relied on Beebe's backing to acquire Texas-based Vernon Savings & Loan in 1982 and rode the institution to a spectacular collapse...
...biggest scam in this regard is the concept of rent control, under which many apartment buildings in Cambridge are regulated. As has happened in many other cities, many rent-controlled apartments in the Cambridge area have gone, not to those who needed them the most, but to those who could most easily afford them. Such abuses have forced many low-income families, those that would otherwise benefit from rent control, out on the streets...
Although these groups are concerned that the Court's decision to hear Webster means that it will completely overturn its decision in Roe, it seems more likely that the Court will modify its decision, allowing states more control over regulations on abortion clinics...
...that fails, you might try holding your own lottery-in-exile, say in Paris. With the entire freshman class spending the year abroad, the administration will be forced to relinquish control of the system...