Word: openings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This year, however, the situation is different. For the first time since 1961, three of the council's nine members have decided not to seek re-election. As a result, the council race is wide open. In 1989, more than any other year in recent memory, your vote will make a difference...
...Friday, Communist officials in East Berlin agreed to allow neighboring Czechoslovakia to open its Western frontier for East Germans seeking to go West. East Germany on Wednesday lifted its month-old ban on travel to Czecholslovakia, the only country East Germans can visit freely...
...former aide to Utah's Republican Senator Jake Garn. Wall transferred responsibility for Lincoln from San Francisco to Washington. At House Banking Committee hearings on Oct. 17, L. William Seidman, head of the Resolution Trust Corp. and chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, criticized Wall for keeping Lincoln open. As a result, the federally guaranteed cost of paying back Lincoln's depositors went up $1.3 billion, to $2.5 billion. Nationwide, the whole debacle of rescuing failing S&Ls will end up costing taxpayers about $300 billion...
...Lincoln of $1.1 billion. Among other things, the suit alleges, Keating, his wife, his daughter and five other insiders sold 1 million shares of American Continental Corp., which owns Lincoln, to the employees' stock-ownership plan for nearly $8 million, more than they were likely to get on the open market...
When opportunity knocks, it's generally a good idea to open the door...