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- GRAPEVINE, Page 18OLD DOG LEARNS NEW TRICK
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- By JANICE CASTRO/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
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- BILL SEIDMAN has just topped his own private joke.
- Shortly before he was confirmed in 1985 as chairman of the FDIC,
- Seidman got an Irish wolfhound, which he named Proxmire after
- the Senator who opposed his confirmation. "Heel, Proxmire,"
- Seidman would bark. But not long ago, as Seidman prepared to
- step down from his post, William Proxmire wrote a flattering
- valedictory to the chairman. So Seidman renamed his dog Annunzio
- in dubious honor of Frank Annunzio, chairman of a House Banking
- subcommittee, who has sparred with Seidman over the S&L bailout.
- Seidman tells colleagues that when he calls "Annunzio!
- Annunzio!" the dog rolls over and plays dead.
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