Word: loan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Southern Californians. Can Keating still summon U.S. Senators--the Keating Five--to his defense at the touch of a phone pad? Or procure the services of top law and accounting firms? Or hire Alan Greenspan, who, before he became Fed chairman, gushed over the "outstanding success" of Lincoln Savings & Loan, Keating's star asset? No. All that happened before Lincoln crashed in a $3.4 billion pile of broken dreams, the most costly savings and loan failure in U.S. history...
...very honored to be able to go and be able to represent Harvard in Washington," she said. "I felt that my role there was to represent Harvard and also to represent a greater body of undergraduates who were being enabled to attend school through the federal loan program...
...afternoon, the students spent about an hour and a half in the White House, half of that time in the Oval Office, where Clinton held a press conference. Secretary of Education Richard Riley presented Clinton with a report saying that loan defaults have decreased, and the President followed with a short speech on expanding access to higher education...
Clinton spoke about the federal direct loan program and the Hope scholarship--which would provide tax relief for families who are paying for students to go to school...
Pooley wrote that Hillary Clinton alienated many Americans "because she seemed not to realize that the citizenry expects its powerful leaders, male and female, to show the humility befitting those whose authority is merely on loan." I have never heard that requirement of powerful men. Do we ask humility of Newt Gingrich? Teddy Kennedy? And why should she be humble? The Hillary Clinton I know (we were college classmates) is an amazing blend of intelligence, charm, ambition, energy and thoughtfulness. How sad that we have made her feel as if she should put a bag over her head and hide...