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...last-ditch effort to save Freedom, political and business leaders tried to raise the $6 million needed to keep the bank solvent. But federal regulators closed Freedom after the group failed to meet a Nov. 13 deadline. Harlem Congressman Charles Rangel, in whose district the bank was situated, charged that the government moved too hastily. "It was mean spirited," he says. "We needed more time...
Thus debate on the new treaty will begin with only 10 of the 15 republics committed to try working out something they could sign. That is hardly an auspicious beginning for what may turn out to be a last-ditch effort to keep the Soviet Union from disintegrating into little more than a name -- and maybe not even that...
...College to celebrate motherhood and wifely virtues, she sparked a national debate among the young about what it means to be a successful woman. That debate was further fueled by the announcement by TV newswoman Connie Chung that she would abandon the fast track at CBS in a last-ditch drive for motherhood at age 44. Meanwhile, male role models are also in flux. Wall Street wonder boy Peter Lynch hung up his $13 billion mutual fund to do good deeds and have more time with his family. What generation in history has enjoyed such liberty to write the rules...
Towards the end of the regatta, Bowers attacked the sixth-place Yale boat in a last-ditch effort to finish ahead of it. With no other chance at winning, the A-division boat succeeded in outsailing the Yale boat. However, this tactic cost Harvard in the long run, as Bowers' boat fell to third place overall due to its 15th-place finish...
...Arab summit, however, he authorized U.S. aircraft to fly over Egypt and cleared the way for the U.S.S. Eisenhower to pass through the Suez Canal. If Mubarak was publicly humiliated by his misbegotten assurances that Saddam would not invade Kuwait, he has now redeemed himself by mounting the last- ditch summit and ensuring a pan-Arab presence in Saudi Arabia...