Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Crocker remained cautious about declaring an end to one of the world's most complicated and protracted conflicts. "It's on the verge of the pieces either pulling together or blowing up very fast," he said. "What I'm trying to do now is focus attention and pressure on the big pieces not yet resolved -- primarily the schedule for Cuban withdrawal." Cuba and Angola have proposed a three-to-four-year timetable to remove its estimated 50,000 troops from Angola, while South Africa has called for a complete Cuban withdrawal by next June. Says Crocker: "There will have...
...home run right off the bat: the perfect note played on a party horn. Then the bottom of the inning kept on that way, fast and farfetched. Mitch Webster singled and Ryne Sandberg was up. Out of the rightfield stands popped Morganna, the floppy exhibitionist with the unmissable kisser, racing for the batter's box on mincing old-ballplayer feet that brought back the newsreels. She couldn't make it past the security guards to Sandberg, but she got to him anyway. His giggling homer gave Chicago a 2-1 lead...
...foyer . . . Afterward, we got dressed. She took me upstairs and proudly showed me the two children -- how they were strapped so tightly into their beds, how she diapered them so efficiently. It was so professional, clinical, lacking in warmth, like the sex we just had. I got out fast...
...respect faded fast in 1986, when the two banks went belly-up. Soon thereafter Wasson left the Guard and resigned his banking posts. Last week a federal grand jury in Oklahoma City charged Wasson, 50, with 16 counts of fraud. The indictment handed up against him and a partner, Melvin Pulliam, 63, said the duo conspired to embezzle $1.3 million from the banks and the U.S. Government. Authorities contend that Wasson used the confidential records of soldiers who had served in his National Guard unit to create applications in their names for six bank loans guaranteed by the Small Business...
Should they be convicted, Wasson and Pulliam will join a growing army of felons in the financial industry. The majority of the crimes, including fraudulent land deals, payouts to bogus borrowers and lavish living at depositors' expense, have been uncovered in Texas and California, where financial institutions grew especially fast in the early 1980s. But the problem is by no means restricted to those states. A report issued in January by the Comptroller of the Currency found that in 35% of the 189 U.S. bank failures from 1979 to 1987, fraud or insider abuse was "a significant factor." Among...