Word: roof
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...ROOF...
...find better prices elsewhere. Another drawback is the agency's refusal to fix up old properties or provide loans for potential buyers. With enough troubles of their own, many banks and thrifts refuse to grant mortgages on such tainted properties. "If the RTC won't pay for a new roof and fresh coat of paint, and no one will lend on it, how am I going to sell it?" asks Dallas real estate agent Jenny Capritta...
Drexel is trying to reassure creditors that the bonuses were not doled out because of any sense of impending doom. "Believe me, nobody was shoveling money out the door because they felt the roof was caving in," says Drexel director Roderick Hills, a former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. "In fact, many executives expressed their confidence by taking their entire bonus in the form of equity." Among them: chief executive Frederick Joseph, who in December elected to take his $2 million-plus bonus in Drexel stock, which now is virtually worthless...
...everyone who wants one"; where "women working outside the home can be confident their children are in safe and loving care"; where the environment is clean, equal opportunity abounds, the disabled are part of the mainstream, the homeless "get the help they need," everyone "has a roof over his head," every child "makes the grade," the streets and schools are "drug-free," we all "confront and condemn racism and bigotry," and "no American is forgotten...
Outlined against a blue-gray October sky (in storage since 1924, trucked in to New Orleans for the occasion and fixed to the underside of the Superdome roof with 17,432 twist ties), the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse watch the Broncos and the 49ers prepare for Super Bowl XXIV. Joe Montana lazily solves the Savings and Loan Crisis. At half speed, without pads, John Elway construes Greek...