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...whiff of trouble was all it took to ignite the fears of Maryland's depositors. Press reports about management improprieties at Baltimore's Old Court Savings & Loan sent customers scurrying to withdraw deposits. The panic spread to other thrifts because many of the state's institutions, as those in Ohio once did, rely for deposit protection on a private insurance fund rather than federal agencies. Maryland depositors feared that their $286 million fund, the Maryland Savings-Share Insurance Corp., would be exhausted by a major run on the $7.2 billion in deposits that it guarantees...
...Golub's figures seems justified and necessary. Only by monumentalizing their documentary content could he give it the kind of fixity and silence it needed, and only that way could he achieve his peculiar balance between the sacrificial and the banal and so get rid of the sour whiff of pornography that attends images of extreme violence...
...refreshingly avoided any whiff of pre-broadcast self-righteousness. NBC and actual returns be damned: at 8 p.m. EST, CBS declared Reagan the winner. ABC followed suit at 8:13; NBC at 8:31. Phew. All that holding back...
...rally in Montreal's Olympic Stadium, hundreds of dancers arrayed themselves before the Pope in the form of a dove. He urged the festive audience, "Have the courage to resist the dealers in deception who make you pay dearly for a moment of 'artificial paradise'-a whiff of smoke, a bout of drinking or drugs...
...woolliest, funniest, funkiest rock memoir ever. It rambles from Richard's childhood in Macon to his current calling as a preacher for the Universal Remnant Church of God in California, with plenty of rest stops along the way, so that even the casual reader may catch a whiff of brimstone before, in the sermon that ends the book, great tongues of heavenly fire finally descend...