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the control frauds that were destroying Texas. At the same time that it was lobbying against the FSLIC recap, it was working on a “Report on the Texas Thrift and Real Estate Crises” (released October 30, 1987). The report explained that “entrepreneurs with backgrounds in real estate development either own or owned 20 of the 24 most deeply insolvent thrifts in Texas (with the remaining four copying the tactics of the real estate entrepreneurs)” (18). The report emphasizes that ADC loans “turned out to be veritable ticking time bombs whose subsequent explosions devastated substantial numbers of Texas thrifts” (10). Concluding that “while there was not anything necessarily wrong with this ‘grow out of it’ strategy,” it led to “frenzied growth” which “became an increasingly vicious cycle” (14, 15).
The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One
William K. Black
PJ: It’s been said recently that the hardest job in the NBA is picking the coach. I think because the coach has a relationship that’s intimate with the team, and if you’re on the outside, how do you know what that is? How do you know how a coach actually handles the locker room? I think every coach has a little different type of a relationship, a way of dealing with players that brings them together as a community. I think you have to have that now. One of my friends in coaching was Bill Musselman. He played this eerie, frightening music in the locker room before the game. Bill Fitch told me some guys are good people, they’re good basketball minds, but they’re just not head-coaching material. One thing that I was capable of doing is somehow or other not favoring the favored or blessed ones but bringing along the whole group, and particularly the people that were the same ilk as I was when I played, the level that I was. I think that’s the other thing about coaches: A lot of them who were star players never made good coaches.
Masters of the Game
Sam Smith and Phil Jackson
After all, just reducing junk food didn’t work. Junk food proved to be the exception to the “everything in moderation” slogan. More precisely, I learned how immediately the body’s metabolism was impaired with just a small amount of processed carbohydrate, or even a healthy product with added sugar. I forged ahead to better understand, and eventually the discipline reaped amazing results.
The Overfat Pandemic
Philip Maffetone
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