Word: loan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Every few hours, when one of the local stations reruns It's a Wonderful Life, George Bailey reruns down the main street of Bedford Falls, wishing Merry Christmas to Old Man Potter and the Emporium and the Savings and Loan...
...more lasting solution could be found in a loan forgiveness program--similar to the one in place at Columbia--for women and minority students attending graduate school. According to the University, the small number of women and minorities with Ph.D.'s is the biggest obstacle to a more diverse faculty. By removing some of the economic burdens of college graduates through loan forgiveness, the University can go a long way toward increasing the size of the pool of qualified minority and women scholars...
...wrong to build on open land. An aide informs him that Greenpeace will be tying up at his dock on Thursday morning. "That oughta impress the Japanese guys," he jokes, referring to a group of financiers arriving the same day with the prospect of a $100 million loan. He dreads the idea of having lived in a period of ecological collapse and done nothing but good deals...
Alan Greenspan. In 1985 Keating hired the current chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, then a private economic consultant, to convince the Federal Home Loan Bank Board (FHLBB) that Lincoln was sound and should be exempt from a rule limiting direct investments in risky enterprises to 10% of a bank's portfolio. Though Greenspan wrote to the board on Lincoln's behalf in February 1985, the board turned down the exemption request. But Government officials who let Keating keep control of the S & L still brandish the Greenspan study when they come under fire. If Keating could fool...
...jobs is often abortion foe John Sununu. Charles Keating takes the Fifth on his savings and loan debacle. Congress passes a budget that includes (Shhhhh! Don't tell Bush) tax increases...