Word: probe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many of the projects went bust. The biggest blow came in September 1982, when Oklahoma City's Penn Square Bank failed. Continental held more than $1 billion in Penn Square's bad energy loans. Continental last week released the results of a 5½-month-old internal probe that blamed the Penn Square involvement on three Continental lending officers, who have since been fired. One of them had accepted $565,000 in personal loans from the Oklahoma City bank. In the summer of 1981, a young vice president, Kathleen Kenefick, had warned superiors about Penn Square...
Piercy could probe much more deeply into Daria's dual struggle not to take the same verbal and psychological abuse that her mother took from her crude, hulking, selfish father and to still honor her mother. But after introducing Daria's quandary, Piercy abandons this conflict in favor of the cheap thrills of the arson story...
...some, spending $1 billion on a machine that smashes electrons may appear to be a colossal waste of money. Instead, they argue the funds can be applied in a more "useful" way, and now, as always, there are countless demands on the government for research grants. Nonetheless, probing new frontiers is the essence of all science and time after time most significant discoveries have come from experiments where practical results were not the primary goal Moreover, as demonstrated by the highly successful Space Program. America must take the initiative and probe further limits if it expects to make a significant...
...bombs under five Arab buses in the West Bank. Shin Bet agents had infiltrated the group to the point where they even videotaped clandestine strategy sessions. Because the deadly devices were timed to explode at the height of rush hour, casualties would have gone into the hundreds. As the probe continued, officials concluded that they had arrested not just the men who had planned the bus infernos but those responsible for the attacks on the West Bank mayors and the students in Hebron...
Daniel's unmistakable prediction for aristocracy gets nauseating at times, and his adamant refusal to probe beneath the surface of the personalities he meets can get frustrating. At certain points--for instance when describing the Times' coverage of the Bay of Pigs--he hints at greater depth, only to pull back to describe an encounter with yet another celebrity. Still, only perhaps a Talmudic scholar could fail to enjoy the breezy gossip about the rich and famous that Daniel serves up throughout Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen. As he has forthrightly stated, "I'm not trying to prove anything, but just...