Word: smellier
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...FDIC could liquidate a failed bank or run it itself, as it did late last year with IndyMac. But those options tend to be even costlier. Meanwhile, "bad banks are more like fish than wine," says Bert Ely, a bank-industry consultant and an FDIC critic. "They get smellier with...
...Finally, there's the press corps: the same hard-nosed wiseacres that always cut up in class, except these days they're a little smellier. And just like in high school I find myself in this clique whether I want to be or not. It's sometimes hard not to get lost in the excitement of how spiffy the hometown looks and how well the local talent is doing and assess it all as a cool outsider. At the opening ceremonies, I waved my blinking bracelet around like a goofball until I realized I was one of about six people...