Word: foe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dark portents came in rapid succession. First the Bush Administration angered friend and foe alike last week by admitting that it needs $100 billion much sooner than expected to continue its cleanup of the shattered savings and loan industry. Then tempers flared at a Senate probe of charges that the government turned over more than 200 failed thrifts to investors in 1988 in what amounted to sweetheart deals. Finally, the beleaguered Resolution Trust Corporation, which is managing the bailout, disclosed plans to dispose of 130 more thrifts and to sell $50 billion of seized assets...
Their optimism is misplaced, but even if they are right, a political time + bomb is ticking. If a Justice Souter votes to weaken or overturn Roe v. Wade before Bush faces re-election in 1992, the President will be castigated for having smuggled an abortion foe onto the court without a fair fight. Few will believe that Bush didn't know all along that Souter would affirm the Republican Party's call to gut the landmark abortion-rights decision...
...cohabitated not well at all with the youngwomen prime minister of a party vehemently opposedto Zia ul-Haq," Galbraith said. "He and the armytook advantage of the current crisis to get rid ofa foe...
...Hampshire's attorney general is appointed by the governor and by law represents him and other state officials in court cases. The state's governor when both abortion cases were argued was Meldrim Thompson, a conservative abortion foe...
...treated the former pediatrician, now 63, mainly as an immigration problem, keeping him jailed in Miami as an "excludable alien" while trying to find a country that would accept him. Meanwhile, Florida Republicans pressed for his release. Last week the Justice Department yielded to the pressure, freeing the Castro foe. Explained one official: "The Cuba lobby did it again...