Mr. Lamb applies to the OTS to open a savings-and-loan in New Mexico.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Lamb Built a Banking Empire] Reference

Mr. Baker's interest in Fan and Fred grew out of the savings-and-loan debacle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shouting 'Fannie!' in a Crowded Congress] Reference

I just visited a community-based savings-and-loan program that CARE supports in Guatemala.    From Wordnik.com.  ['We Need to Change the Social Norms'] Reference

Mr. Ford made a fortune buying troubled thrifts during the savings-and-loan crisis in earlier decades.    From Wordnik.com.  [Soros, Dell Join Flowers in Purchase of IndyMac] Reference

Thirteen banks have failed this year, the most since the end of the savings-and-loan crisis in the 1990s.    From Wordnik.com.  [Congress, White House Weigh] Reference

It reminded me of the way the savings-and-loan boys told reporters "No comment" when the indictments came down.    From Wordnik.com.  [Till the Butchers Cut Him Down]

During the savings-and-loan crisis of 1988-89, U.S. banks failed at a rate of more than two every business day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Banks' Pain Could Continue] Reference

Yet the savings-and-loan crisis, to which the current problems are often compared, lasted from approximately 1987 to 1994.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ask Not Whether It's Time] Reference

The bad-bank idea is similar to the Resolution Trust Corp., which was created to help clean up the savings-and-loan crisis.    From Wordnik.com.  [U.S. Eyes Two-Part Bailout for Banks] Reference

In 1996, TPG earned a fortune by selling American Savings Bank, which it bought during the savings-and-loan crisis, to WaMu.    From Wordnik.com.  [Washington Mutual Forces Out CEO] Reference

A lesson from the savings-and-loan crisis is that banks that fail to quickly acknowledge problems and act on them pay a steep price.    From Wordnik.com.  [Restoring Trust in Bank Stocks] Reference

Fannie's model proved so effective at aiding business for mortgage bankers that the savings-and-loan industry soon wanted one of its own.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plenty of Blame to Go Around for Fannie, Freddie] Reference

On October 15, 1982, President Ronald Reagan signed into law a bill that lifted most of the restrictions on the savings-and-loan industry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joseph A. Palermo: Bipartisanship is Overrated] Reference

During the 1980s, the federal Resolution Trust Corporation did a fine job selling off the diseased assets of the savings-and-loan industry.    From Wordnik.com.  [America’s New Shrink] Reference

But his best call was probably a sell on NetBank Inc., an Internet-only savings-and-loan that filed for bankruptcy protection in September.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thrifts] Reference

New person-to-person online lending sites eliminate loan officers (and savings-and-loan regulators) and match borrowers directly with lenders.    From Wordnik.com.  [Money: Lend Me a Little?] Reference

And Fannie Mae, at least by some measures, was insolvent, thanks to the economic storms that were roaring through the savings-and-loan industry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fannie woes were predicted] Reference

Not since the savings-and-loan crisis has the FDIC faced such a steep challenge in a specific banking market, and one as isolated as Puerto Rico.    From Wordnik.com.  [FDIC Faces Challenge in Puerto Rico Banking Crisis] Reference

More than 40 banks have failed in 2009, putting the industry on pace for its worst year since the savings-and-loan crisis ended in the early 1990s.    From Wordnik.com.  [FDIC Can Bank on Opposition] Reference

We've been here before -- in the 1930s Depression, when the entire economy collapsed, and in the 1980s, when the savings-and-loan industry imploded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter Dreier: The Bush Bail-Out -- We Have Been Here Before] Reference

In the past credit crunches, including the savings-and-loan crisis in the late 1980s, inflation concerns prevented the Fed from being more proactive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Armageddon Has Not Cometh] Reference

Sovereign, which is one of the nation's biggest savings-and-loan institutions, is among the most exposed to Fannie and Freddie, according to the report.    From Wordnik.com.  [Banks Hit as Fannie,] Reference

The FDIC said the industry's ratio of reserves to bad loans was just 63.5%, the lowest level since 1991, amid the crisis in the savings-and-loan sector.    From Wordnik.com.  [Banks on Sick List Top 400] Reference

Clearly McCain had not learned much from his previous involvement with the savings-and-loan debacle about the risks to consumers in unregulated banking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Scheer: She's Clueless, He's Worse] Reference

After the savings-and-loan crisis of the 1990s, Whitehall was the second-largest buyer of distressed assets from the government's Resolution Trust Corp.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wall Streeters Flock to IndyMac] Reference

The extent of government involvement in the banking sector now exceeds the role played by the U.S. during the savings-and-loan crisis in the late 1980s.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devil Is in Bailout's Details] Reference

In the mid-1980s, a laissez-faire Congress let the savings-and-loan industry blow itself up, endangering the very existence of federal deposit insurance.    From Wordnik.com.  [How To Fix The Pension Mess] Reference

Their possible failure would represent one of the agency's most geographically concentrated flops since the savings-and-loan collapse of the early 1990s.    From Wordnik.com.  [Former Puerto Rico Governor Sought Special Consideration for Banks in '08] Reference

If Japan had mended its banking problems with the speed that America reorganized its savings-and-loan industry, it would not have lost 10 years of growth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Banking On Mexico's Future] Reference

JER, founded by Mr. Robert in 1981, earned billions by snapping up debt from banks, insurance companies and other investors during the savings-and-loan crisis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hotel Chain Explores Bankruptcy] Reference

The 64-year-old Mr. Ford, who recapitalized five insolvent Texas thrifts during the 1980s savings-and-loan crisis, made a bid for the failed Newport Beach, Calif.    From Wordnik.com.  [Soros, Dell Join Flowers in Purchase of IndyMac] Reference

Notably, the OTS said the percentage of troubled assets held by the industry continues to remain at levels unseen since the savings-and-loan crisis of the early 1990s.    From Wordnik.com.  [U.S. Thrifts Profitable, but Still Troubled] Reference

Last year, 140 U.S. banks succumbed to the soured economy and a cascade of loan defaults -- the most in a year since 1992 at the height of the savings-and-loan crisis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bank Pay: FDIC Considers Tying Fees To Executive Compensation Levels] Reference

Ben took care of a lot of little things for Joe, and the Clipper would come to Langella's savings-and-loan, down near the airport, almost every day to give Ben some new job.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Loneliest Hero] Reference

In 1992, after presiding at the trial of megabucks savings-and-loan swindler Charles Keating, Ito was named Trial Judge of the Year by the Los Angeles County Bar Association.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Celebrity On The Bench] Reference