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Washington Post, The (DC) - May 19, 1977
The board of the Credit Suisse Bank is convening |
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The board of the Credit Suisse Bank is convening an extraordinary shareholders meeting June 24 to discuss the loss incurred through illegal practices at its Chiasso bracnch office. The board also announced replacements in the general management for two men who resigned last week because of the Chiasso affair.The Chiasso management had channelled flight capital from Italy to a holding company, Texon, in Leichtenstein which in turn reinvested it in some of its faltering companies in Italy.... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - September 7, 1977
Japan's leading commerical bank cut its prime len |
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Japan's leading commerical bank cut its prime lending rate 0.75 per cent yesterday to match the government's reduction last week of the discount rate to 4.25 per cent. The Japanese government also announced plans to spend more than $7.5 billion on a package of public works projects designed to stimulate the economy. ... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - February 27, 1977
Bert and LaBelle Lance: Power and the Bountiful Life |
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Bert: Success YOU'VE SEEN Bert Lance before. At first you can't remember where. Then it comes to you. It was somewhere in the Middle East in a market place. He was dressed in a djellaba and turban standing behind his stall. He was trying to sell you a camel. Cheap. And you were in the process of haggling with him until it occurred to you that you didn't actually need a camel. So you bought a rug from him instead. Very Cheap. He was losing money, he was... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - December 21, 1977
At Central, Cash Flows To Bank On Special Belt |
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Cylindrical and metallic, it looks like a miniature air-conditioning duct as it winds its carefully camouflaged way in among the cashiers and clerks and up through the second- and third-floor stockrooms, past thousands upon thousands of cases of fruity liqueurs, dry gins, bonded bourbons, feather-light scotches, exalted wines and lowly beers.At the end of its journey, it plunges through two brick walls into the building next door. It is Central Liquor's own private money tube,... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - January 30, 1977
Anita Loos and a Cast of Thousands |
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Anita Loos settled on "Cast of Thousands" as the title for her first coffee table book - though she was tempted briefly by "Fast and Loos."Probably no one now writing for a living has had so many famous, infamous and nonfamous friends as this author of 350 movies and "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," which Edith Wharton called "the great American novel.""Cast of Thousands"... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - June 5, 1977
A New Target For Tourism |
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The Dominican Republic occupies the eastern two-thirds of the Island of Hispaniola, where Columbus first touched land in the Western Hemisphere, and this country stands today just about at that point where neighboring Puerto Rico stood 28 years ago -- on the threshold of becoming a major tourist target.If the construction and promotion campaign works, as it should, the development of a tourist boom here will be a second chance for this country, which tried once before and failed. That was... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - May 2, 1977
Suburban Names 3 VPs |
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Suburban Trust Co. of Hyattsville has promoted Harold D. Butler, Richard F. Bytnar and F. Ira Wheatley to senior vice president.Butler began his career with Suburban Trust 15 years ago as a branch manager. He is now manager of the internal operations division.Bytnar, who started as manager of the insurance department, is now manager of the bank card division. He has also taught at the University of Virginia Graduate School of Consumer Banking.Wheatley, manager of the banking... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - April 12, 1977
Angry Latins Move to Throw Off U.S. Economic Domination |
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A U.S. AID program modernizes Peru's fish processing plants, whild Brazil's modern [WORD ILLEGIBLE] are being banned from American markets . The Peace Corps organizes Ecuadorian handicraft workers onto export cooperative, while handcut Colombian flowers wilt as the U.S. Congress tries to halt their entry.Promoting with one hand what it prohibits with the other, a seemingly [WORD ILLEGIBLE#) U.S. economic policy toward Latin America has contributed greatly to the... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - April 1, 1977
U.S. Urging Allies To Join $61 Billion Expansion of IMF |
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The United States is pressing its allies to join in a massive multibillion dollar expansion of the International Monetary Fund, it was learned today.According to responsible finance officials here, the Carter administration has thrown its weight behind two linked projects for supporting weak nations with big oil deficits.One would create a new pool of money, or super tranche, totaling $16 billion. Half this sum would come from oil-soaked organizations of petroleum exporting countries.... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - May 5, 1977
Israel Arrests 66 Arabs |
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The Israeli military command announced the arrest of 66 Arabs on terrorism charges as youths in three West Bank towns were staging violent demonstrations against the occupying troops.A communique said those arrested had bombed a Jewish restaurant in Hebron March 30 and carried out terrorist attacks in Israel in 1975.The demonstrations in Jenin, Ramallah and Nablus were put down with tear gas or shots in the air and a curfew in Nablus, the Israelis said.... |
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