Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lincoln Savings and Loan and a defendant in a lawsuit involving racketeering, fraud and conspiracy in using the institution's funds. After the smoke clears, bailout of this S&L is expected to reach $2.5 billion, making it the nation's costliest thrift failure. When asked whether his fat contributions to the five Senators influenced them to take up his cause, Keating replied, "I want to say in the most forceful way I can: I certainly hope...
Jean-Jacques Annaud's captivating fable comes to the U.S. after earning a phenomenal $100 million in Europe. -- Fat Man and Little Boy: Paul Newman drops a well-meaning bomb...
...fat lady ain't singing...
Hong Kong's traders, retailers and carvers -- about 3,000 people in all -- are already suffering from the U.S., European and Japanese bans. Kwong Fat Cheung Ivory once employed 100 carvers. Now there are five, all old men, who at night can be found sitting around a table eating a silent dinner of silvery fish, cabbage and egg. Behind them is a wall of ivory tusks in burlap sacks that were destined for Taiwan until that country declared a ban in August. "There is nothing to give them to do," says Eddie Huen, one of five brothers...
...backlash may be in the offing. In the provocative new book Heart Failure, excerpted in the September issue of the Atlantic magazine, Thomas Moore, a Washington-based writer, contends that overzealous crusaders against cholesterol have exaggerated the benefits of low-fat diets. Moore, who spent four years reviewing the scientific literature on the subject, acknowledges that researchers have established a link between high cholesterol and increased risk of heart disease. He argues, however, that diet modification cannot do much to lower cholesterol, that reducing blood levels of the suspect substance has not been proved to prolong life and that cholesterol...