Word: groupings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...banks and thrifts, the President's rescue plan prompts many banking experts to wonder whether the U.S. needs a separate S & L industry anymore. Thrifts hold about one-third of all U.S. mortgages, down from nearly 60% some 20 years ago. Says Laurence Fink, a partner in the Blackstone Group, an investment firm that is acquiring several S & Ls: "The average homeowner can get a mortgage without stepping inside an S & L. Maybe the thrifts have outlived their usefulness...
...Paraiso hit the reef, more than 500 visitors passed through Palmer Station alone. And Antarctic tourists are doing more than sailing to research centers for short visits and lecture tours. In 1988, 35 adventurers paid $35,000 each to set foot on the South Pole, and this year another group is skiing 600 miles to the bottom of the world. "Tourism really needs to be regulated," says Mary Voyteck, a scientist with the Environmental Defense Fund...
...stand her in good stead at Edgehill Newport, the 12 1/2-acre residential facility where she is expected to stay for about a month. Patients there are assigned to one of six 24-bed rehabilitation units. | Treatment, which combines medical and psychological therapy with elements from Alcoholics Anonymous, includes intense group and peer counseling designed to break down addicts' denial of their problems. Sessions with family members are also offered...
Right-wing groups in West Germany have grown increasingly visible recently, but authorities last week drew the line at just how far such movements may go. Bonn banned the 170-member neo-Nazi National Assembly political group, confiscating ammunition, knives and swastikas during nationwide raids on offices and members' apartments. "This strike against neo-Nazis should be seen as an unmistakable warning signal," said Interior Minister Friedrich Zimmermann. "West Germany will not be a playing field for right-wing extremism...
...raids came only ten days after the new-right party, the Republicans, won a startling 7.5% of the vote in West Berlin city elections. Zimmermann said the ban on the National Assembly did not affect the Republican Party, because it is not considered "extremist." As for the National Assembly group, leader Michael Kuhnen, who remained free despite the ban, announced the formation of a new neo-Nazi party...