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Washington Post, The (DC) - May 9, 1977
The 'Post-Olmstead' Era |
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Financial General Bankshares, Inc., a bank holding company here with nearly $2 billion of resources has begun a new "post-Olmsted" era with major changes planned in the company's board of directors and top management.A group of investors headed by former Navy Secretary and Ambassador to The Netherlands J. William Middendorf II closed a deal ten days ago in which the controlling bloc of Financial General shares was purchased for $15.1 million.... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - November 5, 1977
The First |
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Once a month the eagle flies.Somewhere a computer spills out thousands of retirement and welfare [WORD ILLEGIBLE] which make their way into a man's sack. Delivery day, and, [WORD ILLEGIBLE] the tempo and the look of the change.[WORD ILLEGIBLE] choke post offices, banks, [WORD ILLEGIBLE] unions, liquor stores and grocery stores. A special world opens - as the cycle begins.The First is known as Mother's day - from the post office to the Montana Terrace... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - October 23, 1977
Borges' Book Of Dreams |
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THE ARGENTINE man of letters Jorge Luis Borges first became known to Europeans and norteamericanos as a writer of short prose fictions hovering over some borderline between story and essay and dealing with fantastic happenings or situations: a nonexistent world, invented in a spurious encyclopedia, begins to intrude upon the real world, for instance; after years of study and prayer a man dreams another man into existence and then discovers that he himself is a dream; books containing every... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - April 25, 1977
Jordan's Shifting Fate Reflects Mideast Conflict |
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SIZE - Including the 2,180-square-mile West Bank, occupied by Israel since the 1967 war, Jordan is 37,700 square miles, slightly smaller than Indiana. The country is largely rocky deserts and arid plains.PEOPLE - The population is 2.8 million, of whom a third live on the West Bank. It is mostly Arab and 95 per cent Sunni Moslem; 70 per cent are Palestinian and the rest Bedouins, except for small communities of Kurds, Circassians and Armenians.HISTORY - Inhabited since biblical times,... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - April 20, 1977
Chase to Curb Some Loans to South Africa |
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Chase Manhattan Bank chairman David Rockefeller today disclosed that his bank lias agreed to withhold loans from South Africa that it sees as assisting that government's official policy of racial separation.Chase thus becomes the first major U.S. bank to adopt a lending stance in explicit opposition to South African apartheid.Responding to a comment at the bank holding company's annual shareholders meeting, Rockfeller revealed that Chase recently arrived at... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - September 8, 1977
So You Think You've Got a Solid Friend at the Bank . . . |
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Like everyone else, I used to have a friend at the Chase Manhattan Bank. My friend's name was Chauncey and he was like a brother to me.When the recent Securities and Exchange Commission's report was published it turned out according to the SEC, that Chase Manhattan was selling New York City securities to its customers at the same time it was unloading the ones it had kept for its own portfolio.I couldn't believe it so I called Chauncey. He... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - February 20, 1977
OUTER LIMITS |
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I have almost 100 miles to go, the entire freezing windswept length of the Outer Banks, from Virginia Beach, Virginia, to Okracoke, North Carolina. Snow is in the headlights, mixing with the thick white foam on the borders of the waves, falling into water that is so black it looks like space. Every once in a while an extra-large wave shoots the foam further up the beach than usual and I have to swerve into the soft dry sand to get around it. Then the jeep lights shine on the dunes and they look... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - January 26, 1977
From Antiwar Rebel to State Treasurer |
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Banks determine who succeeds and who fails. This is a bankers' maxim, used now against its authors by Sam Brown, the antiwar-moblilizer-turned-treasurer of the state of Colorado.After two years of occupying an office that ised to be little more than a retirement haven for political hacks, Brown has earned the enmity and respect of Colorado's biggest banks.He has increased the return on state deposits by instituting competitive bidding, and he has encouraged... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - December 18, 1977
Middle East Vignettes: Tunis, Cairo and Jerusalem |
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Large and exorbitantly priced color television sets are selling like hot latkes throughtout Israel - even though Israeli television broadcasts only in black and white.The reason is that Israel's nominal enemy to the east, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordon, has one of the most modern television broadcasting systems in the Arab world, and all of it in living, royal color.Israelis cannot get enough of it. Enormously high television antennae rise above the skyline in order to... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - November 27, 1977
Who Will Rig Commodities Prices Debated |
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The price of a cup of coffee, the sugar that sweetens it, the tin that encases the powdered kind and prices of more than a dozen other vital commodities are at stake in totuous and virtually unnoticed global negotiations here.The outcome of this diplomatic jamboree could have a decisive effect on the household budgets of everyone, and the income of the Third World in particular.At first glance, the bargaining between the rich countries, led by the United States, and 114 so-called... |
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