Word: old
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seven-year-old bank is solidly profitable, a respected institution in Encino, Calif. But John J. Keating, president of Lincoln National Bank, is getting a bum rap all over town. The banker and his institution are suffering from guilt by association with Charles Keating, the savings and loan operator whose Lincoln Savings and Loan of Irvine, Calif., was taken over by federal regulators last April. Charles Keating is a subject of a congressional investigation to determine if he tried to buy favors from five U.S. Senators. John Keating, on the other hand, is not even wanted for a traffic violation...
President Virgilio Barco Vargas' four-month-old war against his country's top narcos -- Gacha, Pablo Escobar Gaviria and the three brothers of Medellin's Ochoa family -- has not gone as well as he or the nation had hoped. Since Mob hit men assassinated presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan in August and ignited Barco's offensive, the leaders of Colombia's coke cartels have gone into hiding, forfeiting posh estates and bank accounts; some law- enforcement officials believe that the drug princes have even undergone plastic surgery. Nevertheless, Gacha and company remain immensely powerful, with their pipeline...
...old is dying and the new cannot be born. In the interregnum, a great variety of morbid symptoms appear...
...Earth Day 1970 was almost spontaneous, next year's sequel has become a strategic operation. Hayes, who was a 25-year-old Harvard law student when he temporarily dropped out of school to help organize the first Earth Day, is the driving force behind the current campaign. With principal funding from foundations and individuals, Earth Day 1990 has a 115-member American board of directors that includes prominent environmentalists, politicians, business executives, religious leaders, celebrities, labor officials and journalists, among others. There is an international arm with representatives from 33 countries...
...small but symbolically important first step would be to halt deforestation of ancient forests in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. Incredibly, the Government spends $40 million yearly building logging roads and subsidizing the destruction of virgin forests on public lands. If the U.S. protected its last old-growth woodlands, American officials would have more credibility when asking tropical nations to stop the relentless cutting of their rain forests...