Word: rescuers
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...workers scraped at the wreckage of one building with shovels, picks and even their bare hands, a middle-aged man in a worn leather jacket watched anxiously. Two of his daughters had died in his home's collapse. A rescuer , waved his hand for quiet: a dog was barking in the rubble. One of the workers reached into the debris and pulled out a white pup, trembling and whining. "Senor," said the worker, handing the animal to the grieving man. It was his dog. He cuddled it, trying to ease his own sorrow in comforting...
With so much attention directed at the FSLIC as the rescuer of last resort, many experts have begun wondering whether that fund is adequate. The increasing number of federal rescue missions has shrunk the FSLIC's reserve pool from a longtime average of 1.2% of all deposits to just .76%, or about $6 billion. As a result, the FSLIC has asked Congress for permission to begin charging higher insurance premiums to thrifts that get into risky investments. That would create a larger reserve pool and provide an incentive for sound management...
...frighten a firm by first investing in it and then proclaiming that he could run the corporation, which invariably dwarfs Mesa in size, better than its current officers. After an often bitter battle, Pickens' harried and outmaneuvered prey frequently sells out for a high price to a friendly rescuer. That leaves Pickens without an acquisition, but with an immense profit on his shares of the company...
That forced the FDIC to become a rescuer of last resort...
...beef cattle from their keepers," the other a Randolph Scott western of the genre "in which cows got massacred and the good guys feasted on steaks." Nobody comes, and then the theater is bombed; the blast kills the owner and blows all the clothes off his daughter. Her rescuer appears in the person of Raza Hyder, a Muslim captain in the Indian army. After the partition of the subcontinent, Hyder marries the young woman and takes her "west to the new, moth-nibbled land of God," to Pakistan...