Word: locking
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Last year President Bush pledged "every effort" to lock up the white- collar criminals who had helped cause the nation's savings and loan disaster. Indeed, with studies showing that insider misconduct has contributed to 60% to 75% of all thrift failures, the search for banking's bad guys is one of the largest criminal manhunts in U.S. history. But, like Bush's war on drugs, the war on S&Ls has completely overwhelmed prosecutors and investigators. There are more than 3,500 major criminal cases pending, yet 1,500 of them are inactive and gathering dust. Indeed, the backlog...
...Soviet naval officer and a band of co-conspirators lock the captain of their ship in his cabin, tie up the other officers and head for asylum in the West. Military authorities learn of the mutiny and set out in pursuit. Sound similar to The Hunt for Red October? No wonder. The incident, revealed last week in the Soviet newspaper Izvestia, turns out to have been the real-life basis for Tom Clancy's blockbuster, the film version of which, starring Sean Connery, is now playing across...
...sentence in the courtroom that day in June 1964 was life in prison. The verdict of history will hardly judge Nelson Mandela a common criminal. Despite the government's determination to lock him away for good and crush his liberation movement, the unrelenting crusade to abolish apartheid that he waged from a prison cell over the decades made him the supreme symbol of the black struggle in South Africa...
...Captain Tim Kierstead was easily controlling Nick Leary, 7-3, when he fell into a head-lock, and also got pinned in the second period. Harvard was losing for the first time in the match. Things looked bleak...
...betting pool filled anyway. Head for the big N.F.L. pregame monster rally at the Convention Center. Then on to Pat O'Brien's, where they serve a drink called the Hurricane. Note the immediate lowering of atmospheric pressure. Try a cheer: "Go, Pittsburgh!" "Joe Billy, the Steelers are a lock...