Word: whole
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...That was so bad," senior Sharon Landau said. "It was the worst game we've ever played. We just weren't together. The whole year, our strongest point was teamwork. We just fell apart. It's so sad to end the season on a loss. but well' get them next year...
...hearings on Oct. 17, L. William Seidman, head of the Resolution Trust Corp. and chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, criticized Wall for keeping Lincoln open. As a result, the federally guaranteed cost of paying back Lincoln's depositors went up $1.3 billion, to $2.5 billion. Nationwide, the whole debacle of rescuing failing S&Ls will end up costing taxpayers about $300 billion...
...letter from a 65-year-old man who was persuaded by a Lincoln saleswoman that the ACC bonds were just as safe as insured certificates of deposit, paid a point more in interest, and ran only ten months. "If ACC goes under in ten months," she told him, "our whole economy is in trouble." Seven months later, ACC filed for bankruptcy and the retiree lost all his $65,000 -- "$1,000 for every year of my life," he wrote. Some 22,000 other customers hold $250 million worth of worthless ACC bonds...
...message was reassuring: "Those who think we're powerless to do anything about the greenhouse effect are forgetting about the White House effect. As President, I intend to do something about it." He should be held to that promise not just by his own countrymen but by the whole world. The U.S., with 5% of the earth's population, produces nearly 25% of all the CO2 from fossil fuels...
...apocalyptic catastrophe may have been sparked by talking to Leonardo in Rome) painted Ovid's story of the gods' revenge on the rebellious earth giants. These bearded, stumbling palookas in their peasants' breeches, crushed by the fall of rocks and masonry, are done with literally colossal gusto. The whole windowless chamber seems ready, for a moment, to totter and fall on your head. No room in Italy gives you a clearer sense of the mannerist delight in bizarre illusion. If one could imagine a halfway point between Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel frescoes and the gee-whiz delights of Walt Disney...