Word: patches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...overwhelmed by unexpectedly large losses from bad loans. Many of the shakiest institutions are in communities that rely on farming or energy production, which have been deeply depressed. About 31% of the savings associations in Iowa and 43% in Oklahoma are losing money. Just last month, a major oil-patch S and L, Western Savings Association of Dallas, was declared insolvent, and control of its $2 billion in assets was seized by the bank board. It was the third largest thrift industry failure in history...
...child dressed up like a young punk rocker, with hair streaked red and green and an earring dangling from his left ear, strolled by pulling a German shepherd with a patch over one eye, Gilmore commented, "this event really is the first of its kind...
...lonely time too. While your schoolchums are busy doing the Monster Mash at a Mather House bash, or mixing exotic witch's brews in 10-speed blenders and plasticoated cauldrons, you may find yourself all by your lonesome, with nothing to do but nurse a paltry patch of goosepimples...
...everyone in the Texas oil patch is hurting. Along with bankruptcy lawyers and auctioneers, pawnbrokers are profiting from the troubles of the region's economy...
There was a time when I would have shaken my head in wonder at the thought of writing a column about golf. Before my fall from grace--and onto the fairways of America--golf was filed in the same general area of my consciousness as Cabbage Patch dolls and pledge breaks on public television...