Word: messing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...worst is "cancer alley," a 75-mile stretch along the Mississippi River, from Baton Rouge to New Orleans, that is lined with oil refineries and petrochemical plants. The alley's abnormally high cancer rate has prompted one health worker to call it a massive human experiment. A big mess in Chicago is the work of "fly dumpers," unlicensed truckers who collect filth from affluent , neighborhoods and deposit it in vacant lots in stealthy forays at night...
...problems of many large banks suffering from sour real estate loans are closely linked to the S&L mess. Seidman noted that the thrift crisis "has clearly had an effect on real estate markets" by lowering property values and making mortgage loans harder to get. "Real estate markets," he added, "have an effect on bank results. So there is a relationship between the two. And the effect has not been good." Nonetheless, bank depositors "shouldn't withdraw their money and hide it in mattresses," says Eli Schwartz, a Lehigh University economist. "We may be having a banking crisis...
...TIME/CNN poll conducted July 24 to July 25 by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, 49% of the adults in the survey said Bush was doing a bad job of handling the crisis, vs. 33% who gave him good marks. When asked which party they blamed most for the thrift mess, 36% said the Republicans, while 18% said the Democrats were mostly at fault. Only 12% said they have a lot of confidence in the government to correct the S&L mess. Another 59% indicated they were losing confidence in their local...
...White House scouts had predicted, yet it seemed to singe everybody but the nominee. His handlers stashed the gray-suited Souter in the shadowy Room 468 of the Old Executive Office Building, then trotted him around the Senate for get-acquainted handshakes and dined him in the White House mess, both stern tests of his stomach...
...along about now, who are wondering if the process of de-Reaganization hasn't gone too far. With the tax switch clinging to their cheeks like the remnants of a burst globe of bubble gum, they must be asking themselves, Would the Gipper ever have got into such a mess...