Word: moneyed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Millions of Americans will find themselves poorer next month after writing checks to the Internal Revenue Service. But as the April 17 filing deadline nears, the IRS is battling money problems of its own: a projected $359 million deficit above its $5.2 billion annual budget...
...anything," says Barbara Shaw, director of Project Safeguard, a program for battered women in Denver. "Sometimes there aren't a lot of safeguards other than disappearing." Lisa Bianco seemed to have accepted that sad fact. She told friends she wanted to improve her work skills, save some money and then move away before her ex-husband was eligible for parole next year. Denied the warning that she had requested -- and had every right to expect -- she apparently never got the chance to run for her life...
President Bush's plan to bail out the savings and loan industry is getting little help from depositors, who are withdrawing their money at an inconvenient moment. The Federal Home Loan Bank Board, which regulates S & Ls, said last week that in January thrifts suffered a record monthly net-deposit outflow of $10.7 billion (total remaining S & L deposits: $964 billion). Because Bush's proposed $200 billion bailout package is to be financed in part from the thrifts' federal insurance premiums, which are based on the size of their deposits, the withdrawals could reduce that source of Government income...
...grapes and then with customers who did not want any fruit at all. The country's largest chains, including Sloan's, Publix and Jewel, stopped selling fruit from Chile. Grocers had to come up with a returns policy like their department-store counterparts. At most establishments it was money back, no questions asked...
...crises has brought the country to the brink of bankruptcy and shaken the nation's institutional foundations. While a military coup does not appear imminent, the basic conditions for civilian democracy are ! eroding at an alarming rate. Approximately 150,000 Peruvians emigrated last year. Rural families who lack the money to leave have migrated to urban centers, straining city budgets and turning the pueblos jovenes, or shantytowns, into breeding grounds for subversion...