Word: welled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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None of the therapists had treated her. Yet they speculated, according to the Globe, that Mrs. Dukakis' difficulties resulted from "taking on her husband's emotional burdens as well as her own"; they implied that the Governor is repressed and in effect made him the culprit in her illness. The psychologists also said he too needed therapy to help his wife. One even suggested that Dukakis resign his office (his term runs through 1990) to aid his wife's recovery. After the board acted, some of the psychologists said they had been misquoted or their remarks had been taken...
...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...
...Communist leadership, albeit a reform-minded one, in coming face to face with the complexities of capitalism. Within a matter of days, the East German currency -- officially at parity with the deutsche mark -- fell to one-twentieth of its denominated value. One result is that foreigners as well as East Germans with access to hard currencies can buy up low-cost East German marks to purchase goods in East Germany that are subsidized at artificially low prices...
...former president of Atlanta's predominantly black Morehouse School of Medicine, Sullivan is said to be troubled by complaints from colleagues in the scientific and medical community that pro-life hectoring from the White House has driven away some well-qualified applicants from jobs in his department. The top spots at several important HHS divisions, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Centers for Disease Control and the office of the Surgeon General, have not been filled. Says a former high-ranking department official: "Disillusionment is considerable, morale is low, and options...
...demanding last month that Congress produce a deficit-trimming budget without resort to accounting gimmickry or tax increases, George Bush knew he might as well have ordered the sun not to rise. Last week, as Congress raced to adjourn before the Thanksgiving holiday, it sent the President a final 1990 budget bill lopping $14.7 billion off the deficit -- thanks, of course, to gimmicks and a $5.6 billion increase in what people outside the Washington Beltway usually call taxes. Without a murmur of protest or the slightest hint of a blush, Bush agreed to sign the measure into...