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...does not insure against losses caused by fire or robberies. And people who have deposits of, say, $60,000 can collect only the first $40,000 if their bank collapses. But even they stand a good chance of getting most of their money back. Legally, depositors get first crack at any money raised by sale of a failed bank's assets...
...race for the 1973 mayoralty showed to what great lengths some of the councilors are willing to go for a crack at the mayor's post. After weathering a deadlock that took the councilors into February, Walter J. Sullivan, a moderately conservative independent, promised to vote for a new city manager, in return for the four liberal votes needed to make him mayor...
London's response to the new violence was swift and decisive. Prime Minister Harold Wilson announced that some 600 troops from the crack Spearhead Battalion would be dispatched from England to South Armagh. In addition, 400 men of the predominantly Protestant Ulster Defense Regiment were deployed in the county. In a more drastic move, some 150 men of the elite Special Air Services Regiment (SAS) will be sent to Ulster. The dispatch of this counter insurgency strike force, which is specially trained to conduct guerrilla operations behind enemy lines, indicated that for the first time since the troubles began...
...when the real World Series is over and the major league players have all gone home to hunt and fish and sell insurance, and the fans in Boston already gnashing their teeth over the Patriots, they're still playing baseball at places like Southern Cal and Arizona State. Bats crack over the desert almost all year round there--if Harvard plays 40 games in a season, USC plays 150, and the scouts squat in the hot bleacher sun scanning the diamond for kids like Fred Lynn...
...given the opportunity, can rise to any heights. The secret of his success, and that of this warm, funny, most sincere film is older and more forgotten than any other dream: quite simply, they believe in themselves. Twice each day Rocky stops at the neighborhood pet shop to crack a joke, trying to get the attentions of Adrian, an unmarried, unsought "loser" who stands without a word, feeding the caged birds. "Hey, I hear she's a retard," the loan shark's driver mocks Rocky. But under the fighter's clumsy, tender patience, Adrian emerges from behind her harlequin glasses...