Word: licks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...least 500 of the more than 3,000 S and Ls are insolvent: their liabilities exceed their assets. In 1987 alone, the Government closed 17 insolvent S and Ls and paid stronger institutions to take over 31 more. The total cost to FSLIC: nearly $4 billion. FSLIC (pronounced fizz-lick in the industry) would have shut down many more S and Ls, but the agency virtually ran out of money to pay depositors. In the meantime, the insolvent S and Ls have continued to pile up losses, making the ultimate resolution of the problem increasingly expensive...
...Golly, Michael, I can tell you every darned thing you want to know. That Bush is pure balderdash. We can lick him up like a tadpole out of the water. Hey, and let's not forget about doing it for the other fella...
...background and paradoxical gentleness, which even Tyson has in some supply. "I guess it's pretty cool," he says, to be the natural heir to John L. Sullivan, to hold an office of such immense stature and myth, to be able to drum a knuckle on the countertop and lick any man in the house...
...student volunteer efforts center on small core groups of workers which consistently travel to New Hampshire or campaign headquarters in Boston where they man telephones and lick envelopes, leaders say. These groups vary in size from a handful of supporters for candidates such as Al Haig or Bruce Babbitt, to 20 or 30 backers for Dole, Bush or Dukakis...
...wears a diamond stud in one ear, loves to pub-crawl with his hometown "yobbos" (rowdy pals), dotes on heavy-metal rock and has even been known ) to play a lick or two. So it figures that last week Pat Cash would find a most untraditional way to celebrate when he became the first Australian in 16 years to win the men's singles crown at Wimbledon. After routing Ivan Lendl 7-6, 6-2, 7-5, Cash, 22, threw a ball into the crowd and then clambered up the packed grandstand to embrace his father Pat Cash Sr. Remarked...