Word: rests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...corruption scandals that have rocked New York City for the past two years spread through the rest of the Empire State last week. As the result of a wide-ranging FBI sting operation, 44 current and former municipal officials and twelve private contractors were charged with accepting bribes and graft in 40 towns from Great Neck on Long Island to Malone near the Canadian border. Ten officials in New Jersey were also indicted...
...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 from Washington, where thrift regulators rushed to reassure depositors that their money would always be insured for the full $100,000 guaranteed by the FSLIC. "I can't state it emphatically enough, that the FSLIC does not, has not, nor will...
...treason, not the passion, that has to carry the movie. Judged as a pure suspense movie, No Way Out doesn't rank up there with 39 Steps or Dr. No. It does toss in a clever conclusion--casting the rest of the plot in a more intriguing, although confusing, light--but no snappy ending can compensate for an hour's worth of mediocre machinations...
...this point our assumption expert proceeds to discuss anything which strikes his fancy at the moment. If he can sneak the first assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a certain amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the eighteenth century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom...
...year and a half ago of AIDS, about the same time Doris was diagnosed as having the disease and two months after the boy's father succumbed to the illness, known in the ghetto as "the AIDS." She squeezes her brimming eyes shut. "I will feel the guilt the rest of my life," she says. A month ago Doris' five-year-old daughter Jamille received the deadly diagnosis. So far, only her 15-year-old daughter has been spared. Doris says the disease has changed her; she no longer shares needles. "It seems like every day someone else...