Word: lincolns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...policing agency, filed a claim in federal court against the giant Cleveland-based law firm Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue. The RTC seeks more than $50 million in damages, citing Jones Day's alleged "endorsement of and/or acquiescence in" the actions of Charles Keating and his associates at California's Lincoln Savings & Loan, the nation's most spectacularly failed thrift. Jones Day denies all charges...
With six categories available, ranging from "great" (Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson, F.D.R.) to "failure" (Andrew Johnson, Buchanan, Nixon, Grant, Harding), Reagan was placed in the the next-to-last group. Reagan was outranked by Jimmy Carter and Jerry Ford ("average") and topped only Nixon of the modern Presidents...
...bitter fight over the most precious resource in the West. Faced with a drought and a water shortage that threaten future growth, Clark County, which includes Las Vegas, has applied for rights to all the unallocated underground water within its boundaries and surrounding Nye, White Pine and Lincoln counties. It is one of the biggest attempted water grabs in Western history. If it succeeds, rural residents fear that Las Vegas' fortunes will grow while theirs dwindle. "If they control the water, no growth could happen without their approval," says Steve Bradhurst, a consultant hired by Nye County to organize...
...obsessions. Tennessee lawmakers banned the release of more than 24 nonbiodegradable balloons by any one person, in order to keep bits of rubber from choking the fish. Ten state senators in Washington proposed that the eastern part of Washington be allowed to secede and form a new state called Lincoln. "Lincoln was a great emancipator," said one of them, "and we want emancipation from Seattle." The Colorado House decided that you could be sued for making derogatory comments about foods...
...spent most of my life not doing a life of Abraham Lincoln. Most earlier work was around the periphery of Lincoln. It's a very large and complex issue that I was not sure I should tackle...