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While he has a credible defense -- a combination of selective prosecution and sufficient, if not total disclosure -- his father and the Republican Party may wish he had cut a deal and signed the cease-and-desist order when the OTS was willing. With all the publicity surrounding young Bush, the FDIC may feel pressure to push its suit to partially recover from the directors and officers of Silverado the $1 billion loss to taxpayers. On Friday Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee asked the Justice Department to appoint a special prosecutor to handle the Silverado case; but at least...
...objected to New Preperatory, or any of its predecessors, but Commonwealth Day was not so lucky. Only days after school officials began to move furniture and equipment into the building, they were slapped with a cease-and-desist order--requested by Arthur Brooks, a next-door-neighbor with several influential connections in the city...
...were talking war last week, but so far they have exchanged only angry words. Prime Minister V.P. Singh told Parliament that the people of India must be made "psychologically" ready for war with Pakistan, and that Islamabad would have to pay a "very high price" if it did not desist from fanning the secessionist uprising in India's Kashmir region. The next day General Mirza Aslam Beg, Pakistan's chief of army staff, fired back in a press release. "Threatening statements from India," it read, "were really serious and called for a high state of preparedness and vigilance to frustrate...
Also discussed at the hearing were charges of institutional harassment, including the city's failure to pick up the school's garbage for several weeks. In addition, neighbors obtained a cease-and-desist order to prevent the school from moving in equipment early last fall...
...company's brokers pushed him a little too far. Five years ago, the suburban Boston lawyer began an epic campaign to stop Merrill Lynch's brokers, as well as numerous rival callers, from peppering him with phone pitches. First he wrote a polite letter asking the company to desist, but still the calls came. Then he wrote a more threatening note, and still the calls came...