Word: problem
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Wall will defend himself this week before the House Banking Committee. But its chairman, Henry Gonzalez, has already called for his resignation. Last week even George Bush left Wall to twist in the wind: "If part of the savings and loan problem proves to be management or regulation people that aren't aggressive enough, would ((I)) make a change? . . . The answer...
...slight problem with Trust, George V. Higgins' 20th book, is that Earl's task is simple. He pulls off the theft easily; for fairly complicated reasons, the intended victim wants the car to disappear. Unfortunately, Earl ignores the instructions to have the hot auto crushed in a trash compactor. He sells it instead, a characteristic act of greed that promises to get him in trouble. But Higgins seems much more interested in atmosphere than in denouement. There are long, long passages of the author's by now patented low-life banter, characters being long-winded and tedious about the banalities...
...problem, of course, is that as both sides strive to prove that they can stand up to their enemy, it is the people of El Salvador who reap the consequences. "If this spiral of violence continues," warned San Salvador's Archbishop Arturo Rivera Damas, "death and destruction will sweep away many, especially those who are of most use to our people...
Both Bulger and House majority leader Charles F. Flaherty (D-Cambridge) have called some form of new taxes inevitable if lawmakers want to solve the state's deficit problem, and Flaherty said an increase in at least one "broad-based" tax would be part of any package considered by the House...
Leverett House Master John E. Dowling '57 said that he did not know about the heating system shutdown. "No one said boo to me today," he said. "As far as I know there hasn't been a problem...