Word: walls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...East Germans have escaped over the Berlin Wall this year, six by swimming across the Spree. What made last week's exploit so remarkable is that Adryan and company plunged into the river at one of its most heavily guarded points, and in broad daylight. Perhaps, as they had hoped, the presence of so many Western tourists, including an alert British visitor who videotaped the entire escape, deterred the guards from shooting...
...that of some of Quayle's colleagues -- that the Republicans were about to nominate a man without the heft to handle the job. There were anonymous gibes: "Quayle is Bush Lite." His academic record became an issue; as even Quayle admits, "I was not a very good student." The Wall Street Journal quoted one of his college professors as saying, "He was as vapid a student as I can ever recall...
Late last year Congress passed a FSLIC rescue package allowing the agency to issue securities that will raise $10.8 billion in three years. Chairman Danny Wall of the Bank Board estimates that with the $10.8 billion and premiums from member institutions, the insurance fund will bring in nearly $30 billion during the next decade -- almost enough to take care of all the insolvent S and Ls. But other experts are not so optimistic. The FDIC's Seidman has told Congress the bailout figure could reach $50 billion, and some analysts put it as high as $100 billion. Few people believe...
...Week, editors of the McGraw-Hill magazine hoped that no company employee would be implicated. But last week the scandal struck home: Business Week announced that S.G. ("Rudy") Ruderman, who had broadcast radio reports for the publication for seven years, may have illegally traded stocks mentioned in the "Inside Wall Street" column before the magazine hit the newsstands. The New York Stock Exchange had alerted Business Week to suspicious trades that Ruderman allegedly made this year...
...Prescott Bush, silent at the family table, was already thinking ahead to the golf course he attended with the same dutifulness he brought to Greenwich, Conn., town meetings. Hart Leavitt, a retired master who taught George and his older brother Prescott at Andover, says he found Senator Bush, a Wall Street banker, too imposing to address with ease. The Bush children were even more intimidated. I asked Bush if he found it hard to differ from his father. "It never occurred to me to differ. I mean, he was up here ((lifts right hand...