Word: reach
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bolder the reach, the more it suits him. Sanford Weill, who resigned as president of American Express in 1985, has since made daring but unsuccessful bids to take over BankAmerica and the consumer-loan subsidiary of Manufacturers Hanover Trust. Last week Weill's persistence paid off. Commercial Credit Group, the Baltimore-based consumer-finance company (assets: $4.4 billion) he now heads, agreed to take over Primerica, a Connecticut-based financial-services firm that has three times the assets of Weill's corporation and owns the Smith Barney brokerage firm...
...overcome. The U.S. responded to the SS-20s by deploying a powerful INF force of its own, despite the best Soviet efforts to stop it. As a result, the SS-20 adventure turned into a net loss for the Soviets (because the American missiles are more threatening: they can reach Soviet territory, whereas the SS-20s cannot reach American territory). Having met resistance and lost the game, Gorbachev wisely decided to cut his losses and withdraw...
...Living Fence costs $3 a foot, in contrast to $42 a foot for a chain link fence. Except for an occasional pruning (which must be done carefully), P.T. plants require virtually no maintenance. They take five years to reach effective size, but Barrier Concepts says the bushes last up to 35 years, three times as long as most metal fences. The firm hopes to sell its product to private citizens, perhaps by pushing the idea that Living Fences make the best neighbors...
...billion and premiums from member institutions, the insurance fund will bring in nearly $30 billion during the next decade -- almost enough to take care of all the insolvent S and Ls. But other experts are not so optimistic. The FDIC's Seidman has told Congress the bailout figure could reach $50 billion, and some analysts put it as high as $100 billion. Few people believe the FSLIC can avoid going to the taxpayers for billions of dollars...
...same states." What makes the current map such a crazy quilt is that the major battlegrounds stretch from New Jersey and Pennsylvania in the East through Ohio, Michigan and Illinois in the Midwest, to Texas and California. Several smaller border states, such as Kentucky and Tennessee, are also within reach of either Bush or Dukakis. Rarely since World War II has so much terrain in all regions been up for grabs...