Word: normale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...earlier this year, she faced a supply-side problem: a pending divorce had left her with little to spend and nothing to trade in. Inkley, a Chesterfield, Mo., interior-design coordinator, solved her dilemma by signing a four-year auto lease that avoided the hefty down payment a normal car loan would have required. Cost of the lease: $239.04 a month. She drove home in a new white Honda CRX complete with automatic transmission, air conditioning and AM-FM radio...
...Rebecca De Mornay, 24, who plays the part. "And she's afraid of the intimacy that goes with having a loving man." Explains Vadim, 59: "Brigitte played an instinctive, sensuous woman, and she was doing things that at the time were a little scandalous -- things that would be totally normal today." In other words, the locale may have shifted from St. Tropez to Santa Fe, but au naturel remains de rigueur...
...billion cash infusion for the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, backstop for the country's 3,200 federally insured savings and loan associations. That would almost, but not quite, bring the FSLIC back to being merely broke; last year the fund was $6 billion in the red by normal accounting methods. Normal accounting, however, has long since gone by the boards in managing the ugly thrift crisis, which after years of alarmed attention is still getting decidedly worse. So bad is the problem, warns Lowell Bryan, a director of the McKinsey & Co. management-consulting firm, that "our entire credit...
Bryan may overstate the case, but there is no denying the horrendous plight of the thrift institutions -- or rather of the one-quarter or so of the industry that is foundering by normal accounting standards. Last year the profits of all U.S. thrifts totaled $895 million, down from $3.85 billion in 1985. A year ago the 370 or so weakest institutions were hemorrhaging at the rate of $2.2 billion a year. Now those losses are running closer to an estimated $3.8 billion annually...
...hear the testimonies, from the victims, and from Klaus Barbie himself. For in the end they may help us to understand the deeper motivations of a Nazi killer who chose to make himself the enemy of those children and who even now thinks of himself as innocent. Was he normal, like Eichmann? Human, perhaps...