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...seems you want to take the refund but you don't want to make the deposit for the next generation," she said...
...Kuwait, which has pushed oil prices from $17 a bbl. to more than $30, the political mood has changed rapidly. The prime focus of the debate is the coastal plain of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a pristine wilderness area that may hold the largest untapped oil deposit...
...size of the oil deposit, however, is a mystery. The Interior Department's estimate ranges from 600 million bbl. of crude to as much as 9.2 billion bbl. At the high end, the oil reservoir would be roughly equal to Alaska's enormous Prudhoe Bay field, or more than the U.S. uses in a year. The Interior Department puts the odds of finding a commercially exploitable oil field in the refuge at 1 in 5, vs. the industry's typical success rate...
...Republican presidential task force, a fund-raising arm of the G.O.P., has been sending out $25 checks to nearly 700,000 Americans. All the recipients have to do is endorse them and deposit them in their banks. However, there is a tiny little catch, as an accompanying letter explains. The deposited check gives the task force the right to withdraw $12.50 a month from the individual's account for what it calls candidate escrow funding. Lucky recipients of the checks are allowed to exit the program after two payments have been extracted -- there goes the $25 -- but they are encouraged...
...worst fear is that U.S. banks could be the next disaster. In congressional testimony last week, L. William Seidman, who chairs both the RTC and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., said the $13 billion FDIC fund that guarantees bank deposits was under "very substantial stress" because of bank failures and would probably show a loss for the third straight year. So far, 112 banks have closed their doors in 1990. That is comparable to the rate last year, when some 200 banks were shut...