Word: propellers
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...Savings and Loan. He was doing just what Congress had envisioned when it carved out a role for S&Ls in the early 1930s. Limited by law to making home loans and earning the narrow profit margins provided by a relatively stable real estate market, Mile High was helping propel the great American Dream of home ownership for everyone...
...local pundits, the question has become whether Silber's victory in the primaries can propel him to another victory over Weld in November, or whether he will fall prey to the same fickle winds of fortuity that have doomed the Red Sox in recent days...
That is undeniable. As was Reagan, who appointed three conservative Justices -- Sandra Day O'Connor, Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy -- Bush is in a position to pacify the restive right and propel the court more speedily on its current course. With two other Justices, Thurgood Marshall, 82, and Harry Blackmun, 81, in fragile health and rumored ready to follow Brennan into retirement, the Bush imprint on the high court could become every bit as significant as Reagan...
...leisurely 8 knots or carry more than 10 passengers, the Yamato No. 1's maiden voyage will be as unique as the first time Robert Fulton steamed up the Hudson River. Christened last week with a bottle of sake, the Yamato is the world's first vessel to propel itself through the water using the power of magnetism...
Female solidarity -- "the woman thing" as one of her aides calls it -- is not incidental to Dianne Feinstein's political fortunes. A woman's vote, on the order of nearly 6 to 4, is believed to have helped propel her to victory over her rival, attorney general John Van de Kamp, in the state Democratic primary last week. It is bound to be Republican candidate Pete Wilson's most devilish problem in the fall campaign. And if Feinstein beats Wilson to win the governorship of the biggest state, she will become the most powerful elected woman politician in the country...