Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite those lucrative rates, customers have begun to shy away from privately insured institutions. "Because of the problems in Ohio, people are pretty aware of insurance," says Thomas Brown, marketing director for Old Stone Savings (assets: $288 million) in High Point, N.C. "They call us to ask how we are insured. We in North Carolina think that the state insurance is just as good as federal. Unfortunately, because of the bad press, the customers don't always see it that way." Consumer anxiety has prompted many $ privately insured thrifts in North Carolina and Massachusetts, among other states, to apply voluntarily...
Most of the crumbling monuments are victims of a troublesome combination: salt in the building stone and moisture from the ground and air. Says Salah Ahmed Salah, an expert on the preservation of stone at Cairo University: "Salt crystals are like a sleeping devil. Only when you add moisture do they start to act." The water penetrates the stone, dissolves the salt and in the form of a saline solution migrates back toward the surface. There the moisture evaporates, leaving behind the salts, which recrystallize, forcing apart the grains of stone. The result is a flaking and crumbling surface...
...hurt first and hardest in his own backyard." City Councilwoman-at-Large Agusta Alexander Clark, a Goode ally, is worried. "The brother was Mr. Teflon," she said. "He's been scratched now. The question is, Has he been scratched all the way down to the base metal?" Chuck Stone, veteran black columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News, thinks he has: "The short-term rallying round by blacks and the business community will disappear as Goode begins to make mistakes." But Goode does not sound concerned. "I've had a charmed life as mayor because I've learned the arts...
...next morning the spirit transfigured himself from a white salamander in the bottom of the hole & struck me 3 times." There is no reference to any angel from God. The Harris letter mentions Smith's involvement in "money digging," using his supposed special powers and a "seer stone" to find buried treasure. The letter also suggests that Smith used a magical stone to find the buried scriptures...
...obviously a stand-in for Garcia Marquez's Remedios the Beauty, famed for her spectacular ascension to heaven with the family laundry. The job-hopping Nicolas in The House of the Spirits doubles for One Hundred Years' mad inventor, Jose Arcadio Buendia, who strives to manufacture the philosophers' stone and photograph...