Word: accounts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President was not Jimmy Carter but Woodrow Wilson. The account was written 20 years ago by Yale's John Morton Blum. There are differences between the men as vast as the similar ities in the foregoing spiritual profile...
...soybean charges also point up one of the problems of the commodities exchanges: the same broker may both represent customers and trade for his own account. Though this duality is thought to dampen violent swings in price-brokers may have to buy or sell when no one else will-it opens opportunities for abuse. Says Skinner: "Whenever you have a situation where a broker can trade for himself as well as be arbiter for both sides, you are going to have problems...
...elicited from his cast the remarkable ensemble precision that characterized his Goodspeed revival of Kern's Very Good, Eddie two seasons ago (which I saw in its Broadway transfer) and of Hirsch's Going Up last summer (which I caught on its home stage). But one must take into account the fact that the cast was in strange surroundings, and, further, that three of the important roles were assumed here by players who had not done them in Connecticut. In this respect, Gile's guilt will doubtless become Gile's gilt as the run proceeds. Clearly he does know...
Late one Friday afternoon in November 1975, executives at the Los Angeles headquarters of Bateman Eichler, Hill Richards Inc., California's largest brokerage firm, got a series of disturbing phone calls. All 25 employees in the firm's Fresno office-17 account representatives, two trainees, six back-office assistants-announced that they were quitting, with no advance warning. Most distressing to Bateman Eichler was the employees' destination. They moved en masse across Shaw Avenue to open, on Monday morning, the brand-new Fresno office of Bateman Eichler's competitor, Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis...
Jeremiahs Needed. The true outrage of The Abuse of Power, however, rises not from its flaws but from its truths. If many of the specifics have been sporadically reported, if criminals have often been called to account, urban systems still manage to fend off basic reform. They will continue to do so until voters decide otherwise. For that millennium to occur, there need to be more Jeremiahs like Newfield willing to howl their grim, invaluable message over and over again. It cannot be heard by too many citizens, or heeded by too many cities...