Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...That probably was a dumb way to phrase it. I was participating in a system. I have never asked to give anybody money. A politician will come to me and say, "Will you make a contribution?" And they usually suggest a size for you to go out and try and collect. Now I didn't make all those contributions; I went out and collected them. I only contributed to the legal limit...
...with these direct investments you were trying to have it both ways: you stood to make a lot, but if the investment went sour it was the taxpayer who bore the risk...
...cure -- letting S&L operators make risky investments -- turned out to be worse than the problem...
...love to have Lincoln back. If I got Lincoln back, it would not cost the U.S. taxpayers one dollar, and all my bondholders would get paid off. Now if there are S&L losses like I'm saying -- many hundreds of billions of dollars -- why wouldn't it make sense to try with some of us, mainly me. Give us our assets back and let us work them out, see what happens...
...three parties in the Democratic Front (Fredemo) -- an unruly coalition in the best of times -- which is unlikely to win a majority in the national congress. "That for me would be the worst scenario," Vargas Llosa says. "To win the election but not have the mandate to make clear and necessary reforms...