Word: spate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...regulator, M. Danny Wall, chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, defended his agency's year-end spate of savings and loan bailouts as cheaper than shutting down the failed institutions and paying off depositors...
...After a spate of early-season injuries, the A's went into this week's games healthy and in the hitting groove. Their musclemen, designated hitter Dave Parker and the Bash Brothers -- first baseman Mark McGwire and rightfielder Jose Canseco -- each homered at least once in the playoff series against Toronto. Canseco's was a tape-measure job estimated by an IBM computer at 480 ft. Nobody seemed more impressed than Jose himself telling callers on his personal hot line, (900) 234-JOSE, "I mean, this was one mammoth home run, - and you really enjoy hitting those types. I mean...
Such warnings are particularly worrisome at a time when mechanical failures appear to have replaced the threat of terrorism as the leading concern of air travelers. A recent spate of engine explosions, stress cracks and other in- flight mishaps has made passengers keenly aware of once esoteric matters such as turbine blades and hydraulic systems. The public's concern is % compounded by the airline industry's frank admission that it cannot find enough mechanics to do the increasingly complex job of maintaining its aging planes...
Suddenly last week, the inconceivable happened. After a spate of parliamentary maneuvering by the Solidarity trade-union movement, President Wojciech Jaruzelski, who smashed Solidarity in 1981 and interned its leader, Lech Walesa, along with more than 6,000 other members, was forced to turn to his foes to form a government. Jaruzelski asked Tadeusz Mazowiecki, 62, a Solidarity lawyer and journalist, to become the first non-Communist Prime Minister in the Soviet bloc since 1948 and to head up a ruling coalition...
...will not last another two months. Over the summer, Clancy has already been tinkering with three different books -- a new Ryan tale, a World War II naval adventure and a half-completed novel called Without Remorse, about a moralistic CIA assassin named Clark. Clancy's rationale for his new spate of writing: "You just can't sit at the computer and stare at the blank screen...