Word: maverick
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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American Savings (assets: $30 billion), which was once the largest thrift in the U.S., had got into the same trouble as many other go-go S & Ls. During the early 1980s its maverick chairman, Charles Knapp, furiously pumped up the company's growth with brokered deposits and high-risk loans. When the thrift suffered a run on deposits in 1984, the Federal Home Loan Bank Board seized American and installed fresh management. But the new team gambled and failed in a multibillion-dollar investment in mortgage-backed securities. When the Bank Board went looking for help again, it eventually decided...
...down certain rhythms and grooves, establish them, then Margo and I color them. Not paint. Color. We're not concerned with reproducing Hank Williams as he was. We want his intent, his feel, as we hear it." The band, which has recently grown to seven members, also has a maverick edge that harks back to the best rowdy traditions of country. The Trinity Session contains a startling version of Lou Reed's acrid Velvet Underground tune, Sweet Jane. The Velvets were a formative influence on the Cowboy Junkies, one that is still discernible in the unpolished precision of their playing...
There I was in the cockpit, hurtling toward the coast of Libya at 500 m.p.h. My mission: to drop a couple of 100-lb. Maverick missiles on a terrorist training camp near the Libyan port of Benghazi. My craft: the new supersecret F-19, a plane so hard to pick up on radar that I felt sure I could swoop in and blast Gaddafi's buddies without getting shot down myself. Suddenly, I saw something that shattered my composure. High over my stubby left wing, a Soviet-built MiG-25 Foxbat fighter was headed my way. Did the enemy know...
...took a couple of hits, and my plane went into a dive. Before bailing out, I loosed a Maverick in the general direction of Benghazi, unfortunately destroying a nearby village in the process. But as I drifted toward Libya in my parachute, I knew my next move. All I had to do was tap a few keys, go back to the program's main menu and choose another mission. This time I think I'll intercept that Soviet Tu-95D Bear reconnaissance plane heading for East Germany and blast...
...G.O.P. Maverick Moves Higher...