Word: messing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...elude him,"Lazarre-White said. "You have to elude him orthrow it out of bounds. It's not an option tofail... that was the game, right there. It was mymistake. If you're going to take praise when youdo well, you've got to take responsibility whenyou mess...
...deposits. Then too, the thrift's biggest customers were major political contributors. Good donated at least $100,000 to the Republican Party in 1988 after defaulting on his huge Silverado loans. "Good walked away from tens of millions of dollars in financial obligations, leaving taxpayers to clean up the mess, but he could find $100,000 to buy influence with the Bush Administration," complained Colorado lawyer Carlos Lucero, a former Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate...
...jailed him. California alleges that Keating bilked investors who bought $250 million of now virtually worthless junk bonds. The state's charges were the latest in a flood of legal actions against the disgraced businessman. Overall, taxpayers will have to pay more than $2 billion to clean up the mess left by Lincoln's collapse, one of the costliest in the nation...
...With less money and a smaller staff than any of her four rivals, she was at the bottom of most polls a few weeks ago. But Dixon had a message: after 12 years in office, outgoing Mayor Marion S. Barry Jr. had left the city a fiscal and moral mess. And she had a promise: "I'll clean house with a shovel, not a broom...
...boost the insurance premiums that banks pay to cover their deposits. "The American people have had enough of taxpayer bailouts of our deposit insurance system," wrote Donald Riegle Jr., the Senate Banking Committee chairman, in a letter to President Bush. Sensitive to accusations that it aggravated the S&L mess by delaying the cure, the Administration immediately supported a boost in premiums to 19.5 cents per $100 of deposits in 1991, an increase of 63% in one year...