Word: miles
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These operators were not on the scene in 1956 when Denver builder Franklin Burns, cashing in on the postwar housing boom made possible by the GI Bill, set up a friendly little thrift that eventually became Mile High Savings and Loan. He was doing just what Congress had envisioned when it carved out a role for S&Ls in the early 1930s. Limited by law to making home loans and earning the narrow profit margins provided by a relatively stable real estate market, Mile High was helping propel the great American Dream of home ownership for everyone...
...Denver businessman James Metz, who saw the sleepy S&L as the future flagship of a financial empire. He named himself chairman and hired Wise, an S&L marketing whiz from Columbia Savings in Kansas, to run the company. The nattily dressed Wise wasted no time in transforming Mile High's small-town image. He launched an ambitious expansion drive, unveiled plans for a glass-and-steel headquarters downtown, and renamed the company Silverado, evoking the dreams of prospectors in the days of the Wild West. Silverado was only the 26th largest S&L in the state, with total assets...
...five-mile race began quickly, as runners from all four teams attacked the relatively flat first mile. The pace slackened, however, as the race entered the woods for two miles. A lead pack of eight runners, includingHarvard's Spencer Punter and Chris Woodward ledthrough the first three miles. When the runnersemerged from the trees, Woodward had fallen offthe pace, and no other Harvard runner was able torecover from the fast start...
...whole strategy was to get five or sixrunners in the lead pack by the first mile,"Wilcox said. After that first mile, the raceentered the woods, where passing was difficult.The game plan paid off, as Harvard's top fiverunners emerged from the forest close to the lead...
...plan being called in Pentagon circles "the Half War" goes into effect. Some 700 U.S. aircraft flying from Saudi Arabia and carriers in the Persian Gulf turn a 75-mile-wide area of Iraq north of the Kuwait border into what some Air Force officers call a "parking lot" -- an area that has been completely leveled. F-117A fighter-bombers take out Iraqi antiaircraft missiles. Tomahawk cruise missiles from the battleship Wisconsin hit communications centers, truck junctions, munitions depots. B-52 bombers blast targets with highly accurate missiles. Most important, a variety of weapons * throw a suffocating "electronic blanket" over...