Word: flock
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...perverse trait among shaky S & Ls has been their tendency to get further and further into what one bank regulator euphemistically calls "deep yogurt," in part because they must offer higher interest rates than their competitors to keep attracting savings. Big-time depositors flock to these S & Ls, knowing that they cannot lose because the Government will guarantee deposits up to $100,000. In that sense, Congress contributed to the FSLIC's liability in 1980, when it raised the coverage limit from...
Although Truro does not have much of a town center (the main street is about 200 yards long), its beaches are by far the best along the Cape. In the summer, residents flock to Truro's sands and sit on line for hours waiting for a parking space in its small lots...
...killer sprays a schoolyard with gunfire, police wage an arms race with trigger-happy criminals, and frightened citizens flock to buy firearms...
After the election of George Bush, left-wing activism was supposed to end. Campus activists were supposed to be too dispirited to hold noisy rallies. With the Reagan Revolution vindicated by the 1988 election results, young socialists were supposed to realize the error of their ways and flock to business school...
...Christian neighborhoods about people seeking visas to move to North and South America. Since Christians are a minority, says the Greek Catholic patriarchal vicar in Jerusalem, Archbishop Loutfi Laham, they "need stabilization and peace in order to stay here." For the moment, at least, the fears of a disappearing flock appear exaggerated, judging by estimates from Israeli sources. They show that there are 103,000 Christians in Israel, including the Jerusalem area, compared with only 67,000 in 1967. During the same period, the total number of believers in the occupied West Bank has held steady at around...