Word: rest
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Once again the weakest institutions are heavily concentrated in Texas, where 281 S and Ls lost $6.9 billion last year. In the rest of the country, S and Ls eked out a collective $100 million profit, but the industry is sharply divided between highly profitable institutions and those losing money at a rapid clip. "The bad few are pulling down the majority," says James Barth, chief economist for the Federal Home Loan Bank Board...
...only Army facility that makes lethal chemical compounds, but it is one of eight around the country where they are stored.* The entire U.S. arsenal consists of some 30,000 tons of deadly liquids and gases. About two-thirds of that hoard is kept in drums; the rest is contained in weapons ranging from some 3 million artillery rounds to nearly 500,000 rockets. Though virtually all are scheduled to be destroyed by the mid-1990s, the stockpiles have raised safety issues. Congress learned last April that the Army has discovered more than 1,000 leaking chemical weapons since...
...will the fall of President Sein Lwin put an end to a quarter- century of harsh one- party rule and isolation from the rest of the world? -- The impending agreement between South Africa, Angola and Cuba is a triumph for U. S. Diplomat Chester Crocker. -- Iraq and Iran agree to a cease- fire, but chemical weapons, those hellish poisons will remain the disturbing legacy of their...
...cities held rallies demanding that the courts "Free Sharon Kowalski." In Minneapolis demonstrators wore buttons proclaiming BRING SHARON HOME. Thompson's supporters argue that as an adult, even a severely handicapped one, Sharon should be free to control her own destiny. "We are asked to let you rest in peace, Sharon," declared Disabled Rights Activist Jaime Becker at the Minneapolis rally, "but you are not dead. You are alive! And next year you will be free...
...That bellwether interest rate, which the central bank charges on loans to financial institutions, now stands at its highest level in two years. Says Robert Hormats, vice chairman of the Goldman Sachs International investment house: "The increase, announced just a week before the Republican Convention, puts to rest any doubt about Greenspan's independence...