Word: protected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Texas these days, especially on the subject of the state's beleaguered savings and loan industry. Last week Governor Bill Clements got into a shooting match when he described the Government's system for regulating thrift institutions as an "absolute fraud." Concerned that U.S. funds are insufficient to protect deposits at Texas' 49 insolvent thrifts, Clements contended that the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation might be able to reimburse depositors in failed institutions to the tune of only 30 cents on the dollar, along with a Government IOU for the rest. The Governor's remark drew a sharp rebuke...
Though the hosts were doing too much of the winning, sweet sentiments of this kind abounded. One-Woman Basketball Team Hortencia Marcari of Brazil was an object of general delight, and, venturing into the stands once to protect their flag, the Cuban boxers brought an awesome presence to the final week. It seemed everyone's Pan Am hero though, Anglo and Latin, was a lefthanded baseball pitcher born with one finger on his right hand. The University of Michigan's Jim Abbott, 19, carried the flag and led the U.S. team in the opening ceremonies at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway...
Like Carlin and Klein, Leno has a sharp eye for the idiocies of everyday life. In an agitated, high-pitched voice that could pierce the din of the loudest bar, he takes off after everything from convenience stores (where "$20,000 worth of cameras protect $20 worth of Twinkies") to slasher movies ("Woman opens the refrigerator, gets hit in the face with an ax. There's a common household accident, huh?"). Leno's P.G.-rated material is witty, accessible and firmly anchored in bedrock middle America. "I'm hopelessly American," he confesses. "If something doesn't come in a Styrofoam...
...Asia. Since World War II, Moscow has maintained--at great cost to its economy and standard of living--massive conventional forces poised for an invasion of West Germany. This build-up is anything but "peaceful" and "defensive"; no country needs three times as many tanks as its enemy to protect herself...
True, currently we are subsidizing the defense of Japan and Western Europe at the expense of our economy and international competitiveness. But the democratic societies we protect cannot be left unguarded for the Soviets to pressure and coerce. Our allies have not yet reached the stage where they can stand up to the Soviets alone, and it is the United States' job as it has been for the last 40 years, to see that they do. The American nuclear guarantee has kept the peace in Europe and Asia since World War II, and the relative sluggishness of the American economy...