Word: redness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...businesses ranging from steel to computers can rebound from sharp slumps, what is wrong with the thrift industry? Instead of hitting bottom and starting back up, an estimated one-third of the 3,200 federally insured thrifts in the U.S. just keep falling deeper into the red. The problem is potentially grave, because the ballooning cost of rescuing the ailing thrifts could strain the Federal Government's insurance fund. Last week officials at the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, which guarantees deposits up to $100,000 and handles troubled thrifts, estimated that the deficit in its fund reached...
Pelopi, so far as roots go, is a presidential biographer's dream: tucked away in the mountains on the island of Lesbos, it is connected to the outside world by a dirt road that winds past valleys with olive trees and shepherds tending goats. Red-tiled roofs of the village houses spill down the mountainside. Everybody waves, smiles. Pelopi is as famous for its hospitality as for what the Greeks call sovaros, or seriousness. In American politics that may translate into dull and dogged, but on Lesbos, sovaros is high tribute indeed, and the people of Pelopi have...
...discovered Celestine's glass casket was empty, authorities began tailing a couple of strangers who had driven through town. Within two days police followed the pair to the remains, stashed some 40 miles away. The figure of Celestine, still wearing miter and robes, was found lying on its red velvet cushion but concealed in a plywood box crammed into a burial niche in a local cemetery. The miscreants escaped. Back in L'Aquila, the bells rang again, this time in celebration...
...from specific events and are not allowed to speak to or acknowledge people who are not members of their fraternity or sorority, says Jeff Schaeffer '91, who rooms with a Kappa Alpha Psi (KAP) member. The pledges' identical outfits change as the weeks pass. The uniform can include red sweatshirts, jean jackets, red berets and red satchels...
...with the ball usually has to waste 15 seconds waiting for a driver to get open and help her out. When that second player receives the ball, she will draw more one-on-one defensive pressure that wastes another 10 seconds. By then, the shot clock is in the red, and it is highly unlikely that the other team will even get a chance to score...