Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long agony at Continental and the worsening of the Latin American debt crisis have become a drag on the whole banking industry. During the past three months, stock prices of major New York City banks have fallen more than 13%. Said James Wooden, the bank-industry analyst for Merrill Lynch: "Continental's problems are probably unique and not transferable to other banks. On the other hand, they represent a very serious do mestic banking problem that must be dealt with. The sooner those problems are solved, the better...
...politicking suggests that she will be a sturdy campaigner this summer and fall. But she also shares some of Mondale's political liabilities. The television camera may treat her unkindly, as it does Mondale, though for a different reason. Mondale often comes across on the tube as wooden and buttoned up. Ferraro can be animated, but her edgy, fast-talking style is hot for the cool medium. Her Queens accent might set some teeth to grinding. Her tendency to shoot from the lip could produce gaffes in a national campaign...
...publicly asserted that neither the Virgin birth nor the Resurrection need be taken too literally, was formally consecrated as Bishop of Durham in York Min- ster amid cries of protest. Less than three days later, in the early hours of the morning, lightning forked down on the wooden roof of the minster's 13th century south transept. By 2:30 a.m., flames were leap- ing from the medieval masterpiece that is the largest Gothic cathedral in Northern Europe...
...roofless transept, the full scope of the tragedy became apparent: littered with six-foot-high piles of charred debris and fallen beams, the area resembled nothing so much as a bombed-out shell. But the destruction had been limited. Five-sixths of the church, including a huge wooden sculpture of the Virgin and Child, remained unharmed. Best of all, the minster's priceless medieval stained glass largely escaped serious damage. Said Chief Fire Officer Ralph Ford: "The Lord was on our side as we battled with the flames...
...from the sleepy fishing village of Trujillo on the Caribbean coast of Honduras, construction workers are toiling in the sweltering tropical heat to erect dozens of elevated wooden barracks. Each of the $2,000 buildings is made to last. Those already completed make up the nucleus of the Regional Military Training Center, where 150 U.S. advisers have instructed 6,000 Honduran and Salvadoran recruits over the past 13 months. Near by, workers have constructed sandbagged guard positions and bunkers large enough to shelter every serviceman in case of attack. "These soldiers are facing a tough enemy," says an American trainer...