Word: tamed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Considering the enormity of Vernon's failure -- 96% of its loans were overdue when the Government took over -- the indictment strikes some critics as tardy and tame. The Justice Department contends that it has been moving as quickly as possible, although last year it left $26 million unspent out of a fraud-fighting budget of $75 million. "These complicated white-collar-crime cases take time to develop," says Attorney General Dick Thornburgh. In north Texas alone, the Government is investigating more than 500 individuals affiliated with 38 different...
...that damage cannot be repaired, we should be prepared for nationalistic chaos in the middle of Eurasia. The results could make the most feared consequences of German unification seem tame by comparison...
...battle to tame inflation has been exasperating because the chief weapon, tighter credit, has so far managed only to weaken the economy. In general, forecasters believe the U.S. economy will grow less than 2% this year. The housing industry, which has been depressed for two years, took another downward turn last month, when new home construction fell 9.3%, to an annual rate of 1.3 million units...
...around midnight, a crowd of Adams House residents crashed the party. They let the relatively tame Eliot men and women know what the "Club Euro" lifestyle is all about. Women wore black bras, leather bustiers and skirts barely longer than my pinky finger. One man came dressed in a skin-tight black velvet dress and patent leather pumps...
...woman puts the card back and moves down the racks and racks of seasonal sentiments. She settles on a nice, tame Boynton rendition that says simply, "I love you, sweetheart." It has a teddy bear on the front...