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...holdings. The regulators may spin off the Chicago institution's weakest units into another bank, already dubbed "Trashco" by Continental employees, which could then be declared bankrupt. Federal officials believe that the down-sized bank, relieved of troubled loans to debtors ranging from oil drillers to Brazil, could regain public confidence and earn a profit. Then, at some future time, the FDIC might be able to sell Continental and recoup some of its investment...
...bill's purpose is to regain "control of our own borders," in President Reagan's words, and to prevent the further explosion of a shadow society composed of immigrants who live in the U.S. outside either the protection or the obligations of American law. To that end, Simpson-Mazzoli has two major facets, each of which presents immense administrative difficulties...
Perle was able to use this document to regain ground that he had lost to the State Department. Unless the U.S. insisted on the elimination of the entire Soviet SS-18 force and many of the SS-19s and SS-17s as well, he argued, START would not achieve "our mandate from the President" on throw weight. As a compromise, the State Department agreed to "collateral restraints" on Soviet missiles that would cut the SS-18s and SS-19s by two-thirds and require elimination of the somewhat smaller SS-17s. The MX, however, would be virtually unconstrained...
...Nicaraguan contras are hardly idealists to be admired. Most seek only to regain the power they wielded during the Somoza dictatorship. That regime masqueraded as a democracy just to retain U.S. support, while suppressing the very freedoms we now demand that the Sandinistas introduce...
...record book will show how the Crimson held the hosts under control for most of the contest. Instead, they will show that the host Adelphi squad used its strength and a seemingly haphazard fast-breaking offense to regain the momentum and turn the three-goal defecit into a three-goal victory...