Word: arthur
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Councilor David E. Sullivan said the ordinance was proposed after community activists complained that Arthur D. Little, Inc.--a Department of Defense contractor--is planning to build new laboratory facilities...
...million in cash, food and clothing to help the N.U.M. members continue their bloody nine-month-old strike. This follows a summer when more than 100 mineworkers and their families were provided with free vacations at a resort on the Black Sea. A week ago it was revealed that Arthur Scargill, the militantly Marxist leader of the miners, had made several secret visits to the Soviet embassy in London, apparently in an effort to win greater Soviet support. The Soviets, however, appear to have stopped short of granting one Scargill request - to halt their coal and oil exports to Britain...
...Palmer. Reported by Erik Amfitheatrof /Moscow and Arthur White/London
...mistakes. Says Charles Zwick, chairman of Miami's Southeast Banking Corp. ($9.2 billion): "Bankers are forced to take on new risks, and many of them are guessing wrong." The business has become a high-wire act for managers, leaving them little room for error. A study by the Arthur Andersen accounting firm estimates that the number of banks in the U.S. will drop from the present 15,000 to 9,600 by the end of the decade...
Banks argue that their foreign loans were encouraged by officials at the U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve Board. They feared that developing countries would become economically and politically unstable if credit was denied. In 1976 Arthur Burns, chairman of the Federal Reserve, began cautioning bankers that they might be lending too much overseas, but he did nothing to curb the loans. For the most part, they ignored the warning. Financiers were confident that countries like Mexico, with its oil reserves, and Brazil, with abundant mineral resources, were good credit risks. Recalls a former Chase Manhattan banker in Asia: "The world...