Word: depositing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...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...
...Orleans, that is lined with oil refineries and petrochemical plants. The alley's abnormally high cancer rate has prompted one health worker to call it a massive human experiment. A big mess in Chicago is the work of "fly dumpers," unlicensed truckers who collect filth from affluent , neighborhoods and deposit it in vacant lots in stealthy forays at night...
...same time, the bailout failed to overhaul deposit-insurance policies that require U.S. taxpayers to pay virtually the full cost of a bank or S&L collapse. The Administration acknowledged the problem two weeks ago by indicating that it may propose limiting the $100,000 insurance coverage on bank and S&L deposits to just one account per person...
...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...