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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Until last week financier Charles Keating had insisted on being the final witness at congressional hearings on the $2.5 billion disaster at Lincoln Savings & Loan, so that he could rebut the witnesses who had accused him of staving off a federal crackdown on his troubled thrift by lavishing money on influential politicians. But as the aggressive ex-fighter pilot, Olympic swimmer and pillar of the Phoenix business community was being sworn in before the House Banking Committee, his right hand trembled noticeably. His tanned face flushed, his 6-ft. 5-in. frame slumped, Keating, 66, demanded that television cameras...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keating Takes the Fifth | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

Baltimore dealt with the inquiry in a confrontational and almost flippant manner. Except for a scanty correction in Cell, Baltimore never even attempted to rebut the allegations that the Cell project was a product of wholesale deception...

Author: By Juliette N. Kayyem, | Title: Cleaning Up the Lab | 10/12/1989 | See Source »

...laudable that A Common Destiny resists the easy summary that leads to TV-style sound bites. But there is also the danger that the report may be unjustly ignored. The enduring value of A Common Destiny can be found in the mountain of evidence it marshals to rebut a series of debilitating myths about the true state of contemporary race relations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unfinished Business | 8/7/1989 | See Source »

Granieri points to his Democratic roots to rebut accusations that his conservatism is merely the product of upbringing. "I never liked it when I said I'm conservative and people said my parents are conservative," he says. "I used to bristle at that. Nobody asks liberal students about their parents...

Author: By Mark M. Colodny, | Title: A Conservative, But 'Still a Nice Guy' | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

...there is hope for Phillip, my alleged middle brother Michael more than makes up for it. He joined the high school newspaper the year after I did. I've always believed that it was in an effort to rebut my "liberal Jesse Jackson editorials...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: A Liberal Hostage | 5/24/1989 | See Source »

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