Word: disasterous
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WASHINGTON: In a devastating blow that could cost the government billions of dollars in damages, the Supreme Court has ruled that federal authorities breached an agreement with savings and loans in 1989 by changing an accounting rule, throwing many of them into serious financial trouble. Because the decision affects about...
For Frey, the chance to supervise the overall look of this issue was a special treat. "So much of the time we're working with death and disaster. It was really fun to do something upbeat," she muses. Frey could also relate to many of the athletes we profiled. She...
MOSCOW: Russian soldiers of the 245th motorized rifle regiment began pulling out of Chechnya and heading home to Moscow. But whether the troops will stay out of Chechnya is still very much up in the air. In the past, the Kremlin has announced "withdrawals" which have turned out to be...
Six years later, he painted The Gulf Stream, moving this apprehension from animal to man. A black sailor lies on the afterdeck of a dismasted sloop, adrift and rudderless in the deep Caribbean blue. Enormous sharks circle the boat. Their ominousness is reinforced by the zone of black water from...
It is springtime for off-Hollywood film, with maverick hits like Fargo, Flirting with Disaster, The Brothers McMullen--and Pulp Fiction by that spawn of the indies, Quentin Tarantino. Redford had a fine, leathery hand in all that too. In '85 some 50 independent films were made; last year there...