Word: huges
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sweet that we won it against Princeton because it's such a huge rivalry," White said...
Bass has thus managed to buy a huge, healthy S & L, complete with a network of 186 branches, for a relatively tiny amount of capital. More than half of his thrift's assets consist of another sure thing: a $7.8 billion loan to the "bad" S & L that is fully guaranteed by FSLIC to pay a handsome 2% more than the going cost of funds. That will pump some $160 million in annual interest into the Bass thrift, no matter how much trouble FSLIC has in getting rid of the bad assets...
...African elephant is an unmistakable symbol of power and strength. As recently as the 1970s, its numbers were so great that some conservationists worried about overpopulation. Now the elephant is involved in a desperate struggle to survive, and the reason for its peril is one of its glories: the huge creature's magnificent tusks of ivory. Since the early 1980s, the price of ivory has surged from $25 per lb. to $80 per lb. As a result, growing bands of wily and ruthless poachers have taken to hunting down elephants illegally all across Africa, killing the animals with everything from...
...billion pool of popular programs like Amtrak, environmental protection and nutritional assistance that Congress can deal with as it wishes. Off limits for Bush is the defense budget, frozen at $291 billion after allowing for inflation, and the near sacrosanct $247 billion for Social Security. Unfortunately, those huge budgetary no-trespassing signs mean that only meat-cleaver slashes in the jumble of discretionary programs could possibly make the Bush proposal meet the Gramm-Rudman targets. But the President's team is not going to squander political capital on such a fool's errand; that messy job is left to Congress...
...When the huge cost of the cleanup hit home last week, so did a strong sentiment in favor of pursuing the fraudulent thrift owners who made off with the loot. Regulators have estimated that at least one in every four S & L failures has been the result of fraud. In fact, the Bush rescue plan proposes to give the Justice Department an additional $50 million a year for probing S & L fraud, a sum that would pay for 200 new investigators and 100 more prosecutors...