Word: crisises
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last December a task force appointed by Illinois Governor James Thompson declared a financial emergency in East St. Louis and noted, in understatement, "There is growing public concern over the city's ability to provide basic municipal services required to ensure public safety and the welfare of its citizenry." Protested...
If anything, these few morality trials do not go nearly far enough. The real scandal in Congress is not what's illegal; it is what's legal: the blatant, shameless greasing of congressional palms that violates good sense, good taste and good government. Capitol Hill is polluted by money -- campaign...
As more and more thrift executives got into trouble in 1987 and 1988, S & L PACs simply stepped up their campaign giving; by the time Washington finally got around to addressing the S & L crisis this year, the cost of a bailout had swollen to an outrageous $158 billion or...
Pauley said that she has always been "a worrier," but that in the age dominated by AIDS, the drug crisis and renewed racial tension, she is even more concerned for the society she said her children will grow up in.
7--The council discloses that its spring concert, featuring Suzanne Vega, lost $20,000 because it failed to sell out 3000-seat Bright Arena. Council officials blame the ROTC crisis for cutting short advertising.