Word: waves
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...worst examples of government ineptitude concern 97 packages hurriedly thrown together in 1988 to shore up collapsing thrifts, many of them in the Southwest. Last week the Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC) reported its findings on how this first wave of bailouts was handled. Among its conclusions: the transactions were so poorly designed and generous that they allowed investors to reap billions that could have been saved had Congress and the Reagan-Bush Administration been willing to cough up more money up front...
...ATLANTA!" screamed the two-inch headlines last Tuesday, and my hometown was momentarily paralyzed by a wave of disbelieving amazement...
...First Amendment experts immediately labeled an invalid exercise of prior restraint. A four-judge appeals panel promptly agreed, lifting the order the next day and noting that since books had been shipped to 1,500 wholesalers, suppression was a practical impossibility. By the end of the week, a tidal wave of new orders prompted St. Martin's to + increase the print run to 200,000, practically guaranteeing that it will be high on the best-seller list. "This never would have happened had it not been for the attempt to suppress the book," says Thomas McCormack, the chairman...
...would like to respond to the piece that appeared in the September 14 issue of The Crimson, "A Soldier's Story." The author discusses his disapproval of the United States' sending a "first-wave force of 250,000 troops" (an interesting statistic without a source) to protect Saudi Arabia from invasion by Iraq...
Shannon, addressing supporters less than two hours after the polls closed, said, "there was a tidal wave coming and we happened to be standing on the beach when...