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Washington Post, The (DC) - April 10, 1977
GWU Area Resists Being Choked by Changes |
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Twenty years ago, when Washington's Foggy Bottom looked very different, a lawyer named Hugh Obear drove one day by an ivy-shrouded town house on 19th Street NW, just south of G Street.It was narrow and old and lovely, with a magnolia tree and a holly tree that reminded Obear of his home in South Carolina. The streets were lined with town houses, all brick. Hugh Obear's wife Mildred saw their studied elegance and though of Henry James' novel, Washington...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - December 29, 1977
Debate Reflects Changing Israeli Views |
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The daring diplomacy of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat has brought about important changes in Israeli's official policy.Today's Knesset debate, said to be the most extensive in the 29-year history of the Jewish state, illustrated both the nature and the limit of this rethinking.In a 45-minute address that opened the lengthy debate, Prime Minister Menahem Begin made it clearer than ever before that Israel is prepared to withdraw its military forces from the... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - December 24, 1977
U.K. LOAN RATE STATIC |
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Britain's minimum lending rate remains unchanged at 7 per cent the Bank of England said yesterday. ... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - October 15, 1977
U.K. LOAN RATE |
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minimum lending rate was cut by another 0.5 per cent to 5 per cent, its lowest since MLR replaced the bank rate in October, 1972, the Bank of England announced yesterday. ... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - September 7, 1977
A consortium of international banks have agreed t |
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A consortium of international banks have agreed to participate in a $170 million syndicated loan to the Brazilian company building a subway in Rio de Janeiro. The U.S. banks involved include Bank of America, Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. and Manufacturers Hanover Bank of America. ... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - May 22, 1977
THE SALAMANCA DRUM |
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The prime upper classes of England don't seem to suit Miss Eden's lusty pen as well as the Australian outback (The Vines of Yarrabee ) or the exotic air of Peking (The Time of the Dragon ). Her new novel follows the fortunes of the obsessively patriotic and militaristic Duncastle family from the 1890s through carnage and destruction almost to the Second World War. At the center of the novel is Matilda Duncastle, endlessly urging her young sons and grandsons into feverish...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - January 27, 1977
Cathedral Faces Budget, Staff Cuts |
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The Washington Cathedral, which is being built to last a thousand years, faces drastic cuts in personnel, construction and program budgets to save it from threatened bankruptey within the next 18 months.A special ad hoc committee of business and church leaders will recommend sharp economies to the cathedral's regular chapter (board of trustees) meeting today to rescue the institution from a debt of more than $11 million.Savings - some proposed, some already in effect -... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - January 14, 1977
Realty Executive, 68, First President of Lions Eye Bank Here |
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Lewis Hopfenneier II, 68, a businessman and civic leader here dies Thursday at George Washington University Hospital after a heart attack.In 1957, while serving as governor of Lions International District, 22-C. which includes clubs in Washington and Maryland, he instructed the Lions' Eye Bank and Research Foundation here and served as its first president.Mr. Hopfenmaier had joined the Silver Spring Lions Club in 1941, and transfered 10 years later to the Rock Greek Lions...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - June 1, 1977
Third World States at Paris Meeting Weigh West's Aid Offer |
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Eighteen months of complex and volatile negotiations boiled down to one of history's most familiar financial dilemmas last night at the Conference on International Economic Cooperation: Take the money and run, or hold out for more?That, in essence, was the question confronting the 19 developing and oil-producting countries that have been pushing for sweeping reforms in global trade and finance through the conference, more familiarly known as the North-Sruth Dialogue.The...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - September 15, 1977
MONEY MARKETS |
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The U.S. dollar posted gains against all major West European currencies except the British pound on foreign exchange markets yesterday.The strength of the dollar stemmed in part from Chase Manhattan Bank's quarter-point increase, in the prime lending rate in the U.S.The pound, buoyed by the best trade figures Britain has seen in more than seven years, closed at $1.7444, up from $1.7435 Tuesday. The Bank of England sold sterling to keep the pound from rising further.... |
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