Word: thrifts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...percent majority against staging hearings -- which incoming Senate Banking Committee chairman Sen. Alfonse D'Amato (R-N.Y.) has threatened to -- the poll found a plurality of the 1,016 respondents (46 percent) thought Clinton had behaved unethically but not illegally in his dealings with an Arakansas thrift. Why keep the Senate gavels in the drawer? Two-thirds said hearings would simply be a political attempt to hurt Clinton; only a fourth thought they would be a legitimate attempt to learn the truth...
...deal with Whitewater federal prosecutors, an appraiser for a savings and loan institution owned by the Clintons' business partners pleaded guilty today to filing phony documents. Robert Palmer, who performed hundreds of appraisals for Madison Guaranty -- the failed thrift once controlled by one-time friends of the Clintons, Jim and Susan McDougal -- will cooperate with the investigation of the finances of the bank and the First Family. The McDougals were the Clintons' partners in the Ozarks Whitewater real estate venture. Under the plea agreement, Palmer -- who admitted to backdating appraisals not directly dealing with the Whitewater property for Madison Guaranty...
...suit promises to become another p.r. headache for the RTC, which has already come under scrutiny for leaks involving Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan, the Arkansas thrift at the center of the Whitewater affair. And it will get thornier if six other fence sitters join the plaintiffs. One of these, L. Jean Lewis, prepared criminal referrals on Madison that mentioned President Clinton...
...colored tennis sweaters, polo shirts and floral-print shifts that hark back to the Lilly Pulitzers of the horsey set, circa 1973. "Our dresses are very country club," explains X-Girl's chief designer, Daisy Von Furth. "People are tired of finding the oldest, grungiest T shirt in a thrift store." She adds, "A lot of young people are rediscovering golf...
...Arkansas savings and loan with close ties to Bill and Hillary Clinton. "The evidence," reported Fiske, "is insufficient to establish that anyone within the White House or Treasury acted with the intent to corruptly influence" an investigation by the Resolution Trust Corporation, the agency responsible for failed thrift institutions...