Word: highes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...good Tetris book to boost his high-score...
...high-tech wash cycle that often takes less than 48 hours, drug smugglers can turn cocaine-tinged bills into such squeaky-clean assets as money-market deposits and car dealerships. One danger: drug lords and other lawbreakers are believed to be buying valuable chunks of the American economy. Andrew Tobias on the impact of falling housing prices...
...Government's top savings and loan regulator, M. Danny Wall fell victim to the nation's spreading S&L scandal. The clamor for his ouster mounted last month after lower-ranking bank examiners told Congress that Wall had unduly delayed for 21 months a Government takeover of high-flying financier Charles Keating's Lincoln Savings & Loan Association, whose collapse could cost taxpayers $2.5 billion. Last week Wall finally bowed to the pressure and resigned as director of the Office of Thrift Supervision. He had been victimized, Wall complained, by "simplistic efforts to find a scapegoat to shoulder the blame...
...these years, first to the charismatic Benigno and now to his wife. Accusing Cory of reneging on a promise to let him run the government once the two were elected, he bitterly broke off their alliance and joined the opposition in 1987. However, he has not resigned from his high office to emphasize political differences. Rather, he has stayed on as her implacable understudy, as if waiting for the star to break a leg -- or worse...
Ever since Iraq credited its use of medium-range missiles against Iran with bringing a halt to the gulf war in 1988, the regime of President Saddam Hussein has relentlessly pursued high-tech advances in its military hardware...