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...over 31 more. The total cost to FSLIC: nearly $4 billion. FSLIC (pronounced fizz-lick in the industry) would have shut down many more S and Ls, but the agency virtually ran out of money to pay depositors. In the meantime, the insolvent S and Ls have continued to pile up losses, making the ultimate resolution of the problem increasingly expensive...
Another source of concern is the growing pile of consumer installment debt, which has nearly doubled, from $311 billion in 1981 to $613 billion last year. Normally highly profitable for banks, consumer loans could strain industry balance sheets if a large number of credit-card holders defaulted during a recession...
...that the House consider impeachment, the Congressional Black Caucus maneuvered to have the matter placed in the hands of a judiciary subcommittee headed by black Congressman John Conyers. Conyers began as an avowed Hastings sympathizer. But as the hearings unfolded, he says, "the totality of the evidence began to pile up." Last week Conyers drew a standing ovation from the House floor as he pressed his colleagues to vote for impeachment. The judge "has failed to measure up," the Michigan Democrat declared. Voting in favor of impeachment was a painful task for the civil rights coalition in the House...
...father built in her room under angled ceilings on the top floor of their cozy brick, gingerbread-looking house. Her Barbie dolls are stored safely in their pink footlocker. Her snuggly stuffed animals are placed carefully around her. On the floor next to her bed is a pile of books awaiting the dawn of another gloriously unprogrammed, day-care- free summer morning...
...awards continue to pile up for Rodriguez. Her thesis, titled "Berlin Blockade 1948," received a magna, and earned her the Russian and Soviet Studies Award...