Word: hiltons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shortly after assuming the management of the savings and loan, federal officials held a bidders' conference at the Hilton at the San Francisco airport for institutions interested in acquiring Fidelity. Representatives of 32 companies, two-thirds of them other S and Ls', showed up. The FSLIC said it would accept offers for Fidelity during the next 30 days and hopes the troubled institution will be taken over by another company within three months. Pratt and Yang announcing the takeover
...better part of two hours, he keeps the viewer interested too. In this torpid movie season, Diva is to be seen and savored for Philippe Rousselot's electric-blue imagery, for Hilton McConnico's extravagant decors, even for the prodigal joy Beineix derives from parading his talent. And there are some quietly astonishing moments when, with just the touch of hand on neck, the film suggests a growing, reciprocal affection between diva and devotee. It is on these occasions that Beineix's seems a promising movie career indeed-when you can see the young man of flair...
...visited Manhattan to receive a gold medal from the National Conference of Christians and Jews for "courageous leadership in governmental, civic and humanitarian affairs." In contrast to the friendly demonstrations that had greeted the President in Oklahoma only the week before, thousands of outraged protesters outside the New York Hilton Hotel broke into chants of "Money for jobs, not for war, U.S. out of El Salvador!" Ten blocks away, at the Lincoln Center campus of Fordham University, 300 people, including a few members of the N.C.C.J. who opposed honoring Reagan for humanitarianism, had earlier gathered for an "alternative awards dinner...
Inside the Hilton's Grand Ballroom, however, a black-tie crowd of 1,000 heard from Reagan only the soft answers that proverbially turneth away wrath. He paid tribute to a list of Democratic and liberal heroes: Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. He presented himself as the protector of F.D.R.'s welfare state. Said Reagan: "I'm accused by some of trying to destroy Government's commitment to compassion and the needy. Does this bother me? Yes. I'm doing everything I can . . . to slow the destructive growth in taxes and spending...
...Gerald Hilton. Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and Professor of the History of Science, who delivered the Jefferson Lecture last year, called Vermule "a splendid choice" and described the lecture as "a rather grand occasion by the standards of an academic...