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- <text id=90TT0945>
- <title>
- Apr. 16, 1990: Business Notes:Thrifts
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Apr. 16, 1990 Colossal Colliders:Smash!
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 49
- Business Notes
- THRIFTS
- Take This Job And Do It!
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Neither his inexperience nor his admission of having used
- marijuana and cocaine in the early 1970s seemed as pressing as
- the need simply to find someone to oversee the troubled savings
- and loan industry. And so, after berating Timothy Ryan, 44, for
- his utter unpreparedness for the job, the Senate last week
- approved his appointment to head the Office of Thrift
- Supervision by a generous 62-37 vote.
- </p>
- <p> During his confirmation hearings, Ryan, a former Labor
- Department lawyer, readily conceded that he knows little about
- the thrift industry or the S&L cleanup, the cost of which
- Comptroller General Charles Bowsher estimated last week at up
- to $500 billion. If Ryan was in an awkward position, so were
- some of his Senate inquisitors, who are themselves under a
- cloud in the S&L mess. They are accused of favoritism toward
- thrift owner Charles Keating Jr., who made sizable
- contributions to their campaigns--and who was a rapt spectator
- at the Senate hearings.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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