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Washington Post, The (DC) - September 25, 1977
A Race Against Time |
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WITHIN THE NEXT 45 years, if current trends continue, there would be more people in Mexico than there are in the United States. Similarly, Indonesia would have 1.78 billion people in a century, nearly half of the present world population.These scenarios are unlikely to occur. Populations of that magnitude - added in such short periods of time - cannot be accomodated by the political or social structures of these countries. Political leader in some nations have begun to grasp this reality,...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - June 9, 1977
The Austrian National Bank yesterday announced a |
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The Austrian National Bank yesterday announced a 1.5 per cent increase in the bank rate from 4 to 5.5 per cent.The increase was part of a government anti-inflation program to brake the economy by restricting credit facilities.The new bank rate - the basis of all interest rates - will take effect on Friday, the National Bank announced.The Austrian bank rate was cut twice last year, from 6 to 5 per cent in January and to 4 per cent in June....
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Washington Post, The (DC) - April 20, 1977
First Quarter's Earnings Flat at Chase, Citicorp |
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Citicorp and Chase Manhattan Corp., holding companies for the nation's second and third largest banks, today reported first-quarter earnings that basically were flat compared with the same period a year ago.By contrast, BankAmerica Corp., parent of the world's largest bank, reported on Monday that the first-quarter earnings were up 17 per cent over the year before.Citicorp said it operating earnings before securities gains and losses totaled $92.1 million (74... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - February 7, 1977
Nation's Food Prices Endangered by California Drought |
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The serious drought in California has raised concern about higher national food prices and another upward nudge for inflation because California is this country's most important food basket.California produces a quarter of all foods consumed in the U.S. and 40 per cent of the vegetables. And what is shaping up as the state's driest year on record, following its third driest in 1976, comes on top of a killer freeze in Florida that wiped out much of the vegetable crop... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - November 4, 1977
Put It Under the Stairs For Out-of-Sight Storage |
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Opportunities for extra storage abound in most every basement or garage. The spare is there, ready and waiting to be used, but how you use it can make a world of difference in both capacity and convenience, as this storage bank from the Better Homes and Gardens project series shows.Capitalizing on every cubic inch of that space under the stairway, it holds almost anything you need to put away. You may need to alter the individual parts to fit the slope of your stair, but our steps tell you... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - December 8, 1977
Dollar Weakness Casts a Shadow |
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The continuing weakness of the U.S. dollar on world currency markets - and the prospect that this year's yawning U.S. trade deficit approaching $30 billion will be even larger in 1978 - is casting a new deep shadow of uncertainty over an already demoralized stock market."There has been a shift in investors focus which has gone from concern with the money supply and interest rates over to a concern with the trade deficit and the weakness of the dollar, and the...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - October 11, 1977
Private Bankers Warn Debt-Ridden Countries |
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A senior official of Citibank of New York City said yesterday that notice has been served on Peru and other debt-ridden developing countries that the private banking community will not "send good money after bad" to help them out of their financial predicament.The bank's senior vice president, Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Foreign Economic Policy that new loans to Peru and Zaire, both of which are in dire monetary straits, will be withheld pending... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - August 26, 1977
ASB Bond Fund Leads In Performance Survey |
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An American Security Bank bond fund in which many Washington pensions plans are invested had the best three-year performance of any bank's bond fund, a national survey reports.The American Security fund earned a 47.2 per cent return over the three years by actively trading government and corporate bonds.The fund with average assets of about $36 million, represents pension and profit-sharing investments mostly of local businesses, trade associations and unions, said Eugene... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - April 24, 1977
Asia Bank Meeting |
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The Asian Development Bank resolved to maintain a flow of aid to the needies countries and to reduce project delays, as it concluded its tenth annual meeting.Those were the two major issues at the three-day conference of the 42-member development-assistance bank. Cambodia was the only member absent.Bank chairman Taroichi Yoshida said the industrialized donor countries had agreed in principle to a third replenishment of the bank's development fund, which was in danger of... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - March 15, 1977
Ripley's Son-in-Law Given Smithsonian Aid for Work |
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Smithsonian Secretary S. Dillon Ripley's son-in-law has received almost $40,000 in federal and private money since 1974 from the Smithsonian Institution, the World Wildlife Fund and the International Council for Bird Preservation - All of which are directed by Ripley.Robert S. Ridgely, an ornithologist married to Ripley's oldest daughter, Julie, also now has at his disposal in South America a camper purchased by the Smithsonian, apparently with World Wildlife Fund... |
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