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What is telling, however, is the way the Democrats seem to have papered over doctrinal disputes. Dukakis is the party's first postliberal nominee: he blends thrift, managerial skill, social tolerance and a nonbellicose foreign policy with the Democratic mantra of "Good jobs at good wages." By anointing Bentsen last week, Dukakis further complicated the game of pin-the-label-on- the-donkey. With his centrist, probusiness views, Bentsen is a preliberal, a throwback to the days of the Solid South, when Democrats were created by birth, not belief. Thus the party that ruled almost uninterrupted during the Great Liberal...
...credit history, had no money and spoke no English. Today, however, the 31-year-old refugee publishes a Vietnamese-language newspaper, tools around town in a silver Jaguar and has started plans to build a shopping center. The reasons for his rapid rise: long hours of work, plenty of thrift and $4,800 in start-up capital from an unconventional source. Like thousands of other immigrants, the budding entrepreneur tapped an ethnic loan club for his seed money...
Schoolchildren in New York City are about to learn a happy lesson about thrift. Their benefactors are the students of a half-century ago who tucked away small change in savings accounts and then forgot about them. Their spare pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters have grown into a trust fund containing...
...House, Democratic Whip Tony Coelho used a 112-ft. yacht and Learjet belonging to Vernon Savings & Loan to entertain contributors and fly to fund- raising parties. Federal thrift regulators last year charged the Texas bank's officers with looting it; two have pleaded guilty to criminal charges in the case. Last year Coelho lobbied for a $5 billion bill to bail out the industry. Coelho has admitted he was wrong to use the yacht and jet; he and the Democrats' campaign committee paid Vernon $48,450 for their...
...some other respects, however, Wright is no more easily defended than Meese. One allegation is that Wright, who was then House majority leader, threatened in 1986 to block legislation injecting desperately needed cash into the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, the agency that insures depositors in thrift institutions, until one regulatory case was decided to his satisfaction. If true -- and Wright denies it -- such an attempt to hold up urgent legislation would constitute a blatant abuse of his office...