Word: specializing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Conforte denied having secretly placed the winning bid, entered by a lawyer who is the brother of Conforte's attorney. Among those who had expressed interest in the property were a nursing home and a halfway house. Whoever winds up with the Mustang may lack one key element: the special use permit that allowed it to operate as a brothel. Storey County yanked the license last month and may not give it back...
...fact, Hanoi is no longer confident that it can trust its security forces. Not long ago, the Hanoi leaders created a special regiment from people very loyal to them and sent it down to Saigon. That is because they realized that if the people in the south rose up, the regular security forces and even the military there might not be on the government's side, just like in Romania...
Even Heseltine's resignation in 1986 was precipitated by a dispute over whether to sell the country's only helicopter producer to an American consortium or a European group. When Thatcher tilted, as she usually does, to the "special relationship" with the U.S., Heseltine literally stormed out of the Cabinet...
...Lean Deluxe owes its slimmed-down status to a special ingredient -- water -- plus an algae-based food additive. One thing that will not be slimmed down is the price: in Harrisburg, Pa., where the Lean Deluxe is being test-marketed, it costs 5 cents to 10 cents more than the quarter-pounder...
Just so. Until last week, Freedom was the nation's fourth largest black- owned banking company, with assets of $121 million. Founded in 1964 by a group headed by the late baseball great Jackie Robinson, Freedom was formed with a special mission: to serve the churches, businesses and homeowners in the African-American community who were typically denied credit by mainstream institutions. Freedom helped finance the renovation of the Apollo Theater, for instance. But like many banks in the '80s, Freedom sought to cash in on expanded powers granted under deregulation by moving aggressively into new lending areas, including risky...