Word: way
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...elderly California bondholders. During the two years that Lincoln stayed open after the five Senators met with San Francisco bank examiners who wanted to shut Lincoln in April 1987, the cost of paying off the S & L's federally insured depositors grew to more than $2 billion. Along the way, Keating sought the help of an astonishing array of Government officials as well as financial and accounting experts. To their current embarrassment, some agreed...
...Rifkin's first assaults on DNA technology was directed at Steven Lindow, a plant pathologist for the University of California, Berkeley. Lindow had discovered a way of snipping a particular gene from bacteria so that the redesigned microbes resisted frost formation down to 24 degrees F. Theoretically, crops sprayed with the microbes could be protected from cold snaps. In 1983 Lindow got permission from the NIH to test his bugs, which he called ice-minus, on a small plot of potatoes in Northern California...
...Bush Administration was made up of battle-scarred veterans with long memories. They were acutely aware that every President since the end of World War II had learned the hard way the domestic political perils of underestimating the Soviet capacity for producing unpleasant surprises and overestimating the possibility of profound, permanent improvement in U.S.-Soviet relations...
...together the most daring of all Soviet leaders and one of the most cautious American Presidents. Mikhail Gorbachev frequently, and proudly, describes his approach to the world as "radical," while George Bush's favorite word when he talks about foreign policy is prudent. Yet Bush has come a long way in his thinking about the Soviet Union. In a matter of months, his Administration has gone from viewing Gorbachev as a slickly disguised variant of the old red menace to a potential partner in creating a new world order...
...look back wistfully at the simpler times before women's liberation. But very few would really like to turn back the clock. As America heads into the '90s, the battle over abortion rights is regalvanizing feminism, amid a slow awakening to the realization that there's still a long way...