Word: half
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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UNFORTUNATELY, the sets and the stars are not entirely enough to redeem two-and-a-half hours of still-born lines. If you get as drunk as the patrons of Cafe Ole and really enjoy jiggling foam, maybe you won't notice...
...These meets at the end of the year are great opportunities for us to perfect our races in time for Easterns," Co-Captain Keith Kaplan said. "We thought that Penn would be geared up for this one, and they did shave about half of their team, but obviously they weren't up to the challenge that our fast swimming gave them...
Bass has thus managed to buy a huge, healthy S & L, complete with a network of 186 branches, for a relatively tiny amount of capital. More than half of his thrift's assets consist of another sure thing: a $7.8 billion loan to the "bad" S & L that is fully guaranteed by FSLIC to pay a handsome 2% more than the going cost of funds. That will pump some $160 million in annual interest into the Bass thrift, no matter how much trouble FSLIC has in getting rid of the bad assets...
...next decade. The taxpayer portion would amount to about $60 billion, which would be contained in the federal budget over the next ten years. The Government would borrow $50 billion by issuing 30-year bonds to be repaid through revenues collected from S & Ls. Including the interest expense, half of which will be borne by taxpayers, the total package could cost $200 billion or more over the course of three decades...
...million pilot succeeds, Whittle will open Channel One to schools nationwide. He hopes to have signed up as many as 10,000 schools by 1990, giving the program an audience of up to 7 million. The estimated cost to Whittle Communications, half of which is owned by Time Inc., would be $100 million dollars. Already 70% of the pilot's ad time has been sold, with the rest likely to be gone by next month. While Whittle will not release sponsors' names, product categories include sneakers, food and toiletries. Whittle pledges there will be no ads for alcohol, tobacco...