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...thrift crisis could become the heaviest domestic burden of Bush's presidency. In a TIME/CNN poll conducted July 24 to July 25 by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, 49% of the adults in the survey said Bush was doing a bad job of handling the crisis, vs. 33% who gave him good marks. When asked which party they blamed most for the thrift mess, 36% said the Republicans, while 18% said the Democrats were mostly at fault. Only 12% said they have a lot of confidence in the government to correct the S&L mess. Another 59% indicated they were losing confidence...
Between Corpus Christi, Texas, and Mobile, one of the world's most extensive petrochemical complexes attracts the heaviest concentration of oil-tanker traffic off any U.S. coast. The Exxon Valdez disaster, which dumped 11 million gal. of crude oil into Alaskan waters in March 1989 should have jolted the U.S. -- and the Gulf States in particular -- into preparations for coping with such devastating spills. Just how dismally they have failed was demonstrated last week when fires and explosions wracked the 886-ft. Mega Borg for seven days, 60 miles off Galveston. For a time the convulsions threatened to disgorge...
...Faced with the threat of expanded new charges, the former head of Drexel Burnham Lambert's junk-bond department struck a tentative deal to plead guilty to six criminal counts and pay a $600 million penalty. Milken, who earned $550 million from Drexel in 1987, would be paying the heaviest fine ever levied against an individual. "This was Michael's decision," said a person close to the case. "It was his shot...
...they apparently existed in the searing heat of the Big Bang, and only accelerators can re-create them. In fact, all of the quarks in all of the families have been found or re-created -- except for the one called the top, which is believed to be the heaviest of all (its mass is at least 90 times that of a proton). Because it would complete the set and thus vindicate decades of theory building, the top quark has become the object of an intensive international search. And because the top is so massive, it will take the energy...
...Jersey and New York City, George Bush started sending out the word that the G.O.P. is big enough to accommodate supporters of abortion rights. But pro-choice job applicants will not find the same warm welcome at the Department of Health and Human Services, the agency with the heaviest responsibility for health care and family-policy issues. HHS Secretary Louis Sullivan has become a virtual figurehead, hemmed in by Administration pro- lifers who have made opposition to abortion a litmus test in hiring and policy decisions...