Word: round
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...legislature created a $90 mil- lion emergency fund to supplement insurance for the savings and loan associations, but even that soon seemed inadequate in the face of mounting withdrawals. When he declared the bank holiday on Friday, Celeste explained that legislators and federal and state banking officials were working round the clock to formulate a plan to restore confidence in Ohio's financial institutions...
...Micro/Vest was more than willing to fight. In last week's first round, the jury awarded Micro/Vest the ComputerLand stock it sought, which may be worth $400 million. It also ordered Millard, who plans to appeal the ruling, to pay Micro/Vest $125 million in punitive damages for trying to renege on his debt...
...black-bordered picture of the late Soviet President, as had been the case when Brezhnev and Andropov died; readers had to turn to the second page for a glimpse of Chernenko. Instead, the front-page space was devoted to the official portrait of the new leader, a balding, round-faced man, and the announcement that Mikhail Gorbachev, 54, had been chosen by the Central Committee as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union...
Richard Nixon will no doubt sleep more easily knowing that his new dog, Brownie, barks vociferously at the first sign of a stranger. After some 17 years of round-the-clock Secret Service protection, the former President has decided to drop his guards. According to a Nixon spokesman, the gesture was made to help trim the federal deficit. As soon as he hires a private agency to take care of his security needs, America's taxpayers will be relieved of paying an estimated $3 million a year for the three shifts of agents that guard him seven days a week...
...cantonal elections are not crucial in themselves, and at week's end runoffs still had to be decided through a second round of voting in almost two-thirds of the districts. Nonetheless, the last bout of nationwide voting before the all important parliamentary elections next March was scrutinized on both left and right as a barometer of the national mood and an augury of things to come. President Francois Mitterrand's Socialists, though rebuffed, could gain some solace from the fact that their steady decline since 1982 might have leveled off. For its part, the right, though victorious, was made...