Word: though
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...violence did not cease with Stalin's death in 1953. In 1981 Pope John Paul barely escaped assassination. It is believed in the highest circles of the Vatican that Gorbachev's Kremlin predecessors were the masterminds, though the Soviets deny this. The reason for the attack, claims a ranking official of the Holy See, was that the Polish Pope refused to accept the division of Europe into East and West. "The East bloc," says this official, "realized he was a destabilizing factor...
...Keating hired the current chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, then a private economic consultant, to convince the Federal Home Loan Bank Board (FHLBB) that Lincoln was sound and should be exempt from a rule limiting direct investments in risky enterprises to 10% of a bank's portfolio. Though Greenspan wrote to the board on Lincoln's behalf in February 1985, the board turned down the exemption request. But Government officials who let Keating keep control of the S & L still brandish the Greenspan study when they come under fire. If Keating could fool a man as smart as Greenspan...
...Though Keating's refusal to testify brought last week's hearing to an anticlimactic end, the scandal will soon be revived in other forums. The Senate ethics committee has hired an outside investigator to probe the Keating Five, and the FBI is now in on the investigation. Years may pass before the books are finally closed on this fiasco -- and decades before taxpayers are finished paying...
...Though that progress was slight, the bombers were evidently determined to destroy it. Many Lebanese speculated that General Michel Aoun, the bitterest foe of the Arab League peace plan and the commander of fanatically loyal Christian forces in East Beirut, was behind the killing. Aoun has been outraged that the plan permits 40,000 Syrian troops to remain indefinitely in Lebanon. He had pronounced Moawad's election void and vowed to throw out the Syrians. Aoun is too weak to achieve that goal but was strong enough to cause havoc. Before the assassination, thousands of his mostly youthful supporters crowded...
...movie brings homelessness home by presenting it not as a cause for charity but as a recognizable human misfortune, almost inevitable given the circumstances. Grant's direction is both sensitive and street-smart (filming was done in Pittsburgh). Daniels, though too fresh-faced as the blue-collar father, brings hot-tempered passion to the role. And Lahti, possibly the best actress in America working in TV (she won an Emmy nomination for her performance in the mini-series Amerika), is truly heartbreaking. She can convey both the despair lurking behind a brave comment to her husband and a pathetic...