Word: homely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...regulator, M. Danny Wall, chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, defended his agency's year-end spate of savings and loan bailouts as cheaper than shutting down the failed institutions and paying off depositors...
SHUTTLE buses operate on a fixed route and a fixed schedule. That means that a person trying to get home late at night has to wait outside for the bus. And a single person waiting on a street corner at four in the morning is a tempting target for would-be criminals...
Trying to address the security problem with a 24-hour shuttle system also betrays a disturbing bias toward undergraduates who live in the house system. Students who live in Currier House are home when the shuttle drops them off. But graduate students and students who live off campus may face a 10 to 15-minute walk, during which time they are again vulnerable...
...members have argued that many students are "embarrassed" to use the service, but it is equally likely that people just don't know about it. The University puts up signs telling students to lock their doors. It could just as easily post more notices urging them not to walk home alone. Phone numbers for police and University Health Services are listed on the back of ID cards--why not the number for the escort service...
...third ring, I begin to think that maybe nobody else is home after all. I make a mad dive for the phone, not wanting to have to run upstairs to turn the answering machine off when the fourth ring comes...