Word: stallings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...does not know -- Joe Sixpack faithfully depositing his weekly savings into a 5% passbook account. When friends of Wright and Coelho who were heading up failing S & Ls came under investigation for fraud, the Democratic leaders were not only willing to take their calls and visits but to stall legislation and a federal investigation that would have cracked down on these people...
...Crimson had every reason to feel frustrated. In the game's final minutes, Penn State employed a stall offense, keeping the ball away from Crimson sticks. Needing a goal to tie, Harvard could not even get a shot...
...least, uncomfortable with the idea. Peter Appelt, a Government employee, had to walk through an office full of people with a little cup in hand to get a promotion. "It was quite embarrassing," he says. "A nurse followed me into the men's room and stood outside the stall." He passed the test, and is now a senior inspector for the Customs Service at New York City's Kennedy International Airport...
Dark Habits: a chanteuse brings her boyfriend to her Madrid apartment, where he ODs on heroin and dies. What Have I Done to Deserve This?: an illiterate woman has quickie sex with a muscular student in the shower stall of the kendo academy where she scrubs floors. Matador: a beyond-gorgeous woman picks up a stranger, makes violent love, then stabs him to death with her hatpin. Law of Desire: a young stud is directed through some steamy autoeroticism by an unseen older man. Shock the bourgeoisie? The opening scenes in Pedro Almodovar's films seem designed to shock...
...expansion is straining against a shortage of workers and plant capacity. According to economists surveyed by Time, the resulting inflationary pressures will force the Federal Reserve to restrict growth. But the risk is that the Fed will hit the brakes too hard and put the economy into a stall. -- A stock scandal exposes the cozy ties among Japan' s power elite...