Word: messing
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...crisis and his suggestions for reform, Seidman often rankled members of the Bush Administration. He was criticized by some for moving too slowly as head of the Resolution Trust Corporation, the government agency charged with managing and selling off foreclosed properties in the wake of the savings-and- loan mess. The likely candidate to succeed him at the FDIC: Federal Reserve director of banking supervision William Taylor...
...Israel's request for $10 billion in housing-loan guarantees may not be just a ploy to press the Shamir government to talk peace with its Arab neighbors. Some of Bush's advisers make an economic argument: they see little difference between Israel's economy and the state-run mess in the Soviet Union. "We've had some suggestions -- including some from Israelis -- that the worst thing we can do is send a $10 billion loan guarantee to the socialist system in place in Israel," says a senior official. Bush is considering a plan that would channel...
...U.S.S.R. had of making it into the 21st century as a modern, civilized country. All those missiles in their silos, all those troops in foreign lands, all those rubles and cheap oil flowing to Cuba, represented resources that he desperately needed for the Augean task of cleaning up the mess that stretches from Vilnius to Vladivostok...
...centerpiece of the Royal Ballet's current U.S. tour is a production of SWAN LAKE that in most respects is a genial mess. In the famous "white act," the enchanted maidens dance around in what appears to be silvery decor left over from their Christmas party, all tinsel and discarded trees. But the company does have a genuine Swan Queen: the bewitching French ballerina SYLVIE GUILLEM. At 26, she is the reigning star of international ballet, and it is easy to see why. Tall and leggy, she seems to have double-jointed hips -- her ordinary kick is stopped only...
...first Reagan, and then Bush, told the electorate, 'The Federal Government can't do anything right, and watch us prove it.' And the voters all nodded, saying, 'Sure makes sense to me,' as they watched the S&L mess, the Housing and Urban Development mess, the defense-contracting messes and the education mess, the drug-war mess, the homelessness mess, the health-care mess, the banking mess and more environmental messes than you want to think about...