Word: enough
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Keating sought to keep his savings and loan operating even though the Federal Home Loan Bank Board (FHLBB) in San Francisco had found enough bad loans and shaky business practices to shut it down. After Keating purchased Lincoln in 1984, he switched from investing in safe, single-family mortgages to go-go deals in raw land, junk bonds and huge development projects like the $900-a-night Phoenician Resort in Scottsdale, Ariz...
...reason is an unusual mixture of efficiency and political naivete at the Commerce Department, where Secretary Robert Mosbacher did not ask Bush to sign a waiver until he knew there would not be enough nonpolitical applicants to fill 2,700 management jobs, which pay up to $18 an hour...
Some were almost impenetrably learned: no ordinary visitor today knows enough about Renaissance astrology to "read" the arcane designs in the Room of the Winds. Others are quite straightforward, like those in the chamber in which Federico had Giulio and his assistants paint life-size effigies of his favorite horses, with their names written underneath them. In between there is an amazing variety of images, some of which seem to teeter between grandeur and farce in a way unheard of in Renaissance art before...
...pauses, seems lost in thought, then begins again, determined to make her point. "I just don't think we give enough credit to our public. The Viet Nam memorial was first seen as some sort of elitist statement. It's like you see it before you really see it. But if you don't have preconceived notions, the presence of the object will touch you in some way, and you'll be in dialogue with it. I mean, what do you do with people like Tom Wolfe? His fear of modern art is sad. He must have been flogged with...
...sketched on a paper napkin, was a slightly curved black granite wall, 8 3/4 ft. high and 39 ft. long, that would bear part of the King passage. Above it, on what would be the upper plaza, water from a small pool would flow gently down the wall, gently enough that one could easily read the words. To the right of the wall would be a curved set of stairs...