Word: feds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...enacted to protect the public from irresponsible banks like those that invested depositors' savings in highly speculative securities prior to the Great Crash of 1929. As a result, the separation of commercial and investment-banking functions by Glass-Steagall still has tremendous populist appeal. But in official Washington, as Fed Chairman Volcker put it in Senate testimony last January, opposition to giving commercial banks access to the investment-banking area "is almost entirely limited to investment houses now with the field to themselves...
However, these flaws are few and must be expected of a young band. What Lemonheads have to offer is the power of youth, impressionable but active. Lemonheads are both "Fed Up" and "Fucked Up" and want to tell you the whole story of their lives in a not too polite tone of voice. When you have enthusiasm like this, it makes you want to like Hate Your Friends...
Today it is difficult to imagine the bones, the icy graves, the miseries and horrors that took place in Stalin's Magadan. Whatever it was in 1937, Magadan in 1987 is a very different place. The region's 552,000 residents are better housed, better fed, better clothed and better paid than most other Soviet citizens. The majority of them came as young volunteers in search of adventure. Many stayed for the challenge and high pay of the Arctic frontier: salaries run around 500 rubles ($750) a month, nearly triple the national average. "Like many of my friends, I came...
...torture chamber was exposed when another captive, Josephine Rivera, 26, bolted from Heidnik's 1987 Cadillac as it was parked in North Philadelphia. She telephoned the police, claiming she had been held since November. Rivera reported that Heidnik whipped the women with a stick and fed them a mixture of dog food and, it was later learned, minced human flesh. One woman had been electrocuted, the captives said, when Heidnik stood her in the basement earthen pit, used a garden hose to flood it and touched a live wire to her chains. Her body was found in a New Jersey...
...lovely. Some of the Crimson plays this year have been lovely. Allen Bourbeau made a lovely pass against St. Lawrence Saturday when he eluded a pair of Saint defensemen and fed C.J. Young...