Word: specialize
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...week that 1991 is likely to bring the failure of 180 banks with total assets of $70 billion. That would reduce the FDIC fund, which insures bank deposits, from an already weak $9 billion to $4 billion by the end of next year. Seidman urged lawmakers to levy a special $25 billion assessment on banks and raise their insurance premiums to rescue the fund...
...YORK was so flush in 1987 that it decided to cut state income taxes over four years. But when the economy began to shrink, Democratic Governor Mario Cuomo did not react fast enough. Facing a $1 billion deficit, the state legislature met in special session two weeks ago to adopt a package of cuts that nibbled at school spending and hospitals. When Cuomo took off for ^ Washington three days later to deliver a speech that warned about federal budget deficits, he may have hoped his troubles were over for a while. No such luck. On the same day Republican state...
...could fill the film frame superbly. He was also lucky. With the box-office triumph of Star Wars, Hollywood was back in the action- fantasy business. And with producers spending millions on optical gadgetry, Arnold was a bargain: here was a star whose body was its own stunning special effect. Eventually, smart moviemakers figured out how to carve a narrative niche sturdy enough for him to occupy...
...Jordan but also Syria, Morocco, Algeria and Poland. As of Nov. 30, according to Washington, allies had pledged $13.4 billion to this cause and so far actually paid $6 billion. America has also sought cash and in-kind contributions to defray U.S. military expenses by allied payments into a special Defense Cooperation account. In a manner befitting a computer age, no cash or even paper changes hands; countries merely make electronic transfers to that account of funds they hold in various U.S. banks. On Nov. 30, the account held $3.9 billion...
Such visions, however, depend both on political stability and a complete overhaul of the Soviet system. With that in mind, Bush proposed that the Soviet Union be granted "special association" status in the IMF and the World Bank. Those organizations would help integrate the U.S.S.R. into the world economy by dispatching experts on the banking system, stock markets, currency exchange, transportation and energy. Eventually the Soviets could be eligible for full membership in the international bodies...