Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When my plane left Logan Airport last Friday, I began my journey to a state about which I knew very little. I did know Lincoln was the capital, Omaha was the largest city, Mike Rozier had won the Heisman Trophy a few years ago and the former governor used to date actress Debra Winger...
...drive from Omaha to Lincoln was about one hour long, and I continued to be amazed by certain features of Nebraska. The terrain was absolutely flat and the horizon extended forever. Drivers were courteous. One time, I found myself in the wrong lane at a traffic light. I touched my horn to see if I could move over a lane, and instead of inching up to cut off my angle, the fellow smiled and waved me in. Sumner Tunnel, how you doing...
...Friday night, my friend from Lincoln bragged about how everyone left their care and houses unlocked. Fifteen minutes later, I opened my suitcase and discovered that my camera was missing. So much for security--that's the Bostonian mentality. Once something's missing, you can bet it's stolen...
However, there's still one big difference between Nebraska and Harvard. Walk into any bar in Lincoln, plop 60 cents on the table and soon you'll be sipping a glass of Bud draft. That's right, for the price of one beer at the Boathouse, you can get a pitcher of beer in Lincoln. Sports bar, how you doing? Don't even bother to tell...
Lawrence Taggart. The top thrift regulator in California in 1983 and 1984, Taggart allowed Keating to transfer $800 million in Lincoln's assets to high- risk investments. A month later he resigned from the government to become head of a Keating-controlled enterprise, TCS Financial Inc. Immediately Keating poured nearly $3 million into the business, wiping out the debt of the financially ailing firm. A friend of then FHLBB head Edwin Gray, who became his bitter enemy, Taggart wrote to Don Regan in 1986, calling Gray a "re- regulator" who was having a "very adverse impact on the ability...