Word: sound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sound of collapsing banks has echoed through the depressed Texas oil fields for two years now, but the crash heard last week was the loudest of all. Federal regulators disclosed that they would pledge $4 billion to rescue Dallas-based First RepublicBank (assets: $32.5 billion), the state's largest banking firm. The initial federal commitment is second in size only to the $4.5 billion bailout of Chicago's Continental Illinois...
...Republic National Bank of Miami, the loan seemed sound: an $800,000 mortgage on a Coral Gables, Fla., home worth $1.2 million. But the U.S. ! Attorney seized the house in March because it was owned by Thule Holding Corp., a Panamanian company controlled by Indalecio Iglesias, a convicted drug trafficker...
...this sounds very arbitrary, it is. "We're playing God, but then, we can because we invented the game," says Medlock. The result is ambiguities. The project's philosophies of "It's up to us" and self-reliance might sound conservative, but it is the workers for liberal causes who inevitably get recognition: antinuclear proponents, feminists and peace activists...
...broken families, working mothers and perils like drugs, growing up is not easy. From the depressed hollows of West Virginia to the comfortable breezes off Puget Sound, five terrific kids laugh and play and struggle through the jagged landscape of modern childhood...
...cease-fire is not a sound beginning to end the war," Hamadi said. "The correct and the short-cut beginning for peace passes through direct negotiation...