Word: wall
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wall will defend himself this week before the House Banking Committee. But its chairman, Henry Gonzalez, has already called for his resignation. Last week even George Bush left Wall to twist in the wind: "If part of the savings and loan problem proves to be management or regulation people that aren't aggressive enough, would ((I)) make a change? . . . The answer...
...Bush is a lawyer, so he knows I'm innocent until proven guilty," Wall replies. He is wrong, of course: Bush is not a lawyer, and Wall, although he seems to lack the venality of other players in the Keating affair, is not innocent. Like a number of other legislators and Government officials, Wall paid more attention to cosseting the people he regulated than to safeguarding the depositors and taxpayers who depended on his vigilance. Although Wall says | he now sees Keating's "half-truths and obfuscations," more than a billion was lost while he dithered over closing the vault...
...East Coldenham, N.Y., 40 miles northwest of New York City. More than 120 children were eating lunch in the two-story cafeteria of an elementary school when a blast of wind estimated at 100 m.p.h. struck the yellow-brick-and-glass building. A massive section of the south wall crashed into the children in a hail of shattered glass, concrete and falling bricks. Some pupils who had been standing to watch the storm were tossed about like rag dolls. "I heard a whistling sound," said Mike Miller, 7. "Tables were flying. Bricks were flying. There was breaking glass. People were...
Hope and resignation. Like oil and water, they do not mix well, yet those are the conflicting emotions that course through East Germany now that the Wall has come down. More of the former perhaps than the latter, as this artificially created country longs for a fresh start after 40 years of orthodox Communist rule, as it yearns for free, multi-party elections and economic rebirth...
...euphoria of the moment has not removed all the reminders of how it was until very recently. On the route to Friedrichstrasse, a main Berlin crossing point, the subway train glides through two empty stations bricked up since 1961, when the Wall rose. The platforms are bare, eerily lighted by a few dusty neon tubes. East German border guards have learned to replace their studied sullenness of old with the occasional smile, but West Germans and others still must file through cattle-chute-like passport control points, and are made to exchange 25 deutsche marks ($13.50) for East German marks...