Word: case
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...pushing to clean up the savings and loan mess, have federal regulators acted too hastily in declaring some thrifts insolvent? A federal judge in Topeka thinks so in at least one case. Last week he ordered the Office of Thrift Supervision to return control of an S&L to its original owners on the ground that the agency used "arbitrary and capricious" accounting methods to justify seizing the thrift, Franklin Savings (assets: $9.3 billion) of Ottawa, Kans...
...Brooklyn attempting a comeback by running for district leader, was shot to death in his campaign headquarters. The prime suspect, according to police, was a longtime friend who was allegedly angry over the manner in which a lawyer who had been recommended by Beatty had handled his alimony case...
Some critics are concerned that the new $4 million-per-year program will fail to spot drugs that are enhanced naturally by the body's metabolism or immune system, and that the old mouse screens were better in that respect. In any case, new agents discovered by the automated screening may require years of additional testing in the lab -- and then on animals -- before any newly discovered therapies can be tried on human cancer patients. "All it will take," says NCI adviser Korn, dean of the Stanford University School of Medicine, "is one smashing winner. Then everyone will...
...pointed out, no one has been killed, except by accident, in conflict between rich industrial countries. In poor nations of the world, millions of people have died in struggles during those years. "Out of poverty has come conflict." Elena Bonner, the widow of Andrei Sakharov, stated the objectivists' case in an irritable burst: "Moral concepts are lovely, but the key is governing these things...
Beside the effervescent Morris, Baryshnikov is rather severe, intently examining the image in the mirror when he is dancing, contemplating Morris with a fixed eye when he isn't. His gaze looks critical, but that's not the case. "I try to figure out the way he works and anticipate him," Baryshnikov says cheerfully. "But I never...