Word: handedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mean you could have taken your hand out of that handcuff at any time?" an incredulous Eddie asks Roger after the rabbit slips his shackles. "Not at any time," comes the retort. "Only when it was funny." Such are the Toontown laws of physics; they do not always apply to this movie. Every framed frame is beguiling, as befits a pioneering project made by Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future) and ace Animator Richard Williams. But not all the gags -- even those quoted from such Bugs Bunny classics as Falling Hare and Rabbit Seasoning -- have the limber...
This week the Vatican representatives hoped to meet with Gorbachev. Casaroli was hand-carrying the Pope's first personal letter to the party leader, a three-page missive written in Russian that referred to the human rights claims of Catholics and other minorities. The dialogue may continue face-to-face if Gorbachev includes a papal visit in his anticipated trip to Italy later this year...
...grown but the process of growing, being able to watch things growing and dying and being reborn. Perhaps the first real pleasure, though, is simply tactile -- the sense, when one bends on one's knees on a warm spring morning, of the vast solid mass under one's hands, the thick, flat rotundity of the earth. Or perhaps the first real pleasure is a vision of possibilities. Three yellow roses might look good here; there's room for some tomatoes over there, or perhaps a row of asters. People planting their first plots tend to be too practical, determined...
Federal regulators said last week that liquidations will remain a last resort in resolving the industry's widespread insolvencies. Of 3,100 federally insured thrifts, some 200 are considered hopelessly insolvent. The FSLIC's liability for these S and Ls now significantly exceeds its assets on hand, so that the fund posted a deficit of $13.7 billion at the end of 1987, contrasted with $6.3 billion the previous year. But the FSLIC aims to narrow that gap over the next few years, relying on income from premiums and other sources. The FSLIC estimates that it will have $20 billion available...
...FSLIC's total reserve has gone into deficit because its liabilities for insolvent institutions now exceed its assets on hand...