Word: finalization
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...allegations, and reports that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) might file a $200 million civil suit against him and the other officers and directors of Denver's Silverado Banking, Savings and Loan Association, Neil Bush replaced Charles Keating as the S&L poster boy. His father interrupted his final press conference at the Houston economic summit to defend the besieged 35-year-old Denver businessman. "What father wouldn't express a certain confidence in the honor of his son?" asked the President as his voice cracked with emotion. "If the system finds he's done something wrong, he will...
...witticisms--I'm a critic, so the first thing I should do is tell you, in gory detail, everything that was wrong with the film. I will, in just a minute, and the list will be pretty long, too. There was enough wrong with the film that at the final, supposedly dramatic ending, most of the audience was guffawing instead of sobbing. But it takes a lot of chutzpah to do things as badly as the cast and crew of this movie does, and I have to admit that, in a perverse way, I respect that. And, aesthetic sensibilities...
Throughout his personal essays, Ash inserts historical background that is immensely readable, his narration frequently benefiting from personal experience. But Ash's brilliance as a scholar and as an historian shines through in his final essay, in which he attempts to make sense of the amazing scenes depicted in the previous chapters...
Under American rules, a player also has to worry about "deadness," a state almost as final in croquet as it is in life. A player whose ball has hit another ball is considered "dead" on that ball. He cannot hit it again unless he passes through a wicket. This can leave a player cooling his heels on the sidelines for a half an hour while his opponent hits through. Darryl Zanuck, one of old Hollywood's croquet fanatics, who included Harpo Marx, Samuel Goldwyn and Louis Jourdan, described the predicament: "When you're three-ball dead, you're just...
...high-quality mallets and sets have doubled in the past three years, while the number of croquet clubs has grown from five in 1977 to over 300 this year. More people are buying backyard sets, and public courts are springing up in Tulsa, Phoenix and Rockford, Ill. The final round of the New York Championship Croquet Tournament was played on June 17 at public courts in Manhattan's Central Park before a hushed crowd...