Word: tens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plan, which will cost some $157 billion over the next ten years, will allow the Government to close down or sell off more than 500 insolvent savings institutions. To reform the rest of the thrift industry, the bill tightens capital requirements so that S & L owners would have more of their own money on the line. Specifically, the bill calls for all thrifts immediately to post $1.50 in reserves for each $100 in deposits and reach a level of $3 in reserves...
Television calls them the wonder years, but for millions of youths between the ages of ten and 15, the years of early adolescence are anything but wonderful. No longer children, not quite adults, they are bombarded by ! dizzying physical changes, reeling emotions and raging hormones. Today's youngsters, however, face problems far more formidable than acne or gangly limbs. Drinking, drug abuse, sexually transmitted diseases and teenage pregnancy, once the province of high schools, have drifted into the lower grades. Add to this the crippling effects of broken homes and ill-equipped parents, and it is easy...
...winner destined to become king of the global media board. Rumors and speculation ran wild, and stock prices gyrated, as directors of Time met last Thursday and early Friday to consider the hostile $10.7 billion takeover offer that Paramount Communications had put forward the previous week. After deliberating for ten hours on the 34th floor of the Time & Life Building in Manhattan, the board approved a double-barreled response that demonstrated Time's determination to complete its merger with Warner. Declaring that Paramount's $175-a-share bid was "not in the best interests of Time, its stockholders...
...that end, the Zimbabwe government is sending ten of its threatened rhinos to south Texas ranches this summer. The program is supervised by the American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums, but the bill is being footed by Game Coin, a group of hunters. Rescuing rhinos costs big money: Game Coin has already invested $300,000 in the rhinos at Bentsen's ranch, and will spend more than that to capture and transport the Zimbabwe rhinos...
...prophesied in Scripture, but the end has come. Ten years after the $ Rev. Jerry Falwell zoomed into the right lane of national politics, the Moral Majority is being shut down. Come August, the organization, whose gospel blended Fundamentalist theology and ultra-conservative politics, will close its Washington office. Falwell will devote himself to two Lynchburg, Va., enterprises, the Thomas Road Baptist Church and Liberty University. Ironically, Falwell made the announcement in a city that symbolizes the sins the Moral Majority inveighed against: Las Vegas...