Word: hand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Texas, troubled banks are becoming almost as common as tumbleweed. Last week Dallas-based First RepublicBank, the state's largest bank holding company (assets: $33.2 billion), skidded to the brink of failure and was forced to go, ten-gallon hat in hand, to the U.S. Government. Within two days the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation advanced $1 billion to keep First RepublicBank's 73-member banks in business. At the same time, Houston's ailing First City Bancorp, the fourth largest banking company in the state, reported that its plan for returning to financial health was in jeopardy. The problems encountered...
...fields of computer research are at different stages in their life cycles. Artificial intelligence is just getting started: the first commercial projects appeared less than five years ago, and are now finding widespread application (see following story). The supercomputer manufacturers, on the other hand, having supplied high-speed processors to government labs and intelligence agencies for a quarter-century, are now experiencing a growth so explosive that it has taken even the most optimistic industry leaders by surprise. Sales of the machines, which cost $5 million to $25 million each, have increased 25% a year or more over the past...
...Sandinistas, on the other hand, are hoping to cripple severely the contra resistance--putting them in a greatly weakened position for their first high-level face-to-face negotiations within Nicaragua this week. Indeed, Costa Riean President and Nobel Laureate Oscar Arias Sanchez, who has repeatedly criticized the Nicaraguan government's failure to comply with the peace plan he designed, denounced last week's Honduran raid as a blow to the peace process and said it revealed that the Sandinistas are more concerned with eliminating the contras than negotiating with them...
Palandjian is recovering after winter surgery on his playing hand. The senior had a good fall, reaching the Rolex ITCA Easterns doubles semifinal with partner Jon Cardi, before having surgery on his left hand...
...obvious that Allison was not ignorant of the swap until one lonely Friday night. The evidence repeatedly shows that the dean not only knew of the deal well before it was finalized, but also took an active hand in its formulation. This is not just an honest mistake, but another example of Allison's inability to reconcile the educational mission of the K-School and Harvard with his desire to bring money, power, and publicity to his fledgling school...