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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Business was concluded in a spirit of unity unprecedented in any gathering in the past with such a disparate array of organizations," he said at a news conference...
...Lincoln stayed open after the 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...
When they return home, though, East Germans now face an array of questions that seemed theoretical, if not downright irrelevant, only weeks ago. Do they want to build the future within the boundaries of the state as it presently exists? Would they be better off if the whole country were, in effect, annexed by Bonn? Could they hold their own in a partnership with West Germany? And perhaps most important, what are they -- East Germans or just Germans...
Each is taking a different approach to the job of getting laughs and viewers. Modeled after MTV, the Comedy Channel will have a stable of veejay- like hosts who will provide comedy patter while introducing an array of clips: scenes from comedy movies, snippets of old TV series, excerpts from stand-up performances and other laughtoids. An occasional full-length movie will intervene, but mostly the comedy will come in quick bursts, aimed at a new generation of TV "grazers," viewers who flip around the dial with their remote control. Says HBO chief Michael Fuchs: "We're looking to make...
...rights movement, the new rights being proposed would be available to heterosexual couples as well. Of the nation's 91 million households, 2.6 million are inhabited by unmarried couples of the opposite sex. Only 1.6 million households involve unmarried couples of the same sex. These figures include a disparate array of personal arrangements: young male- female couples living together before getting married, elderly friends who decide to share a house, platonic roommates and romantic gay or straight lovers. Among those whose emotional and financial relationship would qualify them to be called domestic partners, only...