Word: bank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the basic plan of regular examinations, a series of baroque innovations is possible. Pollack says that the health centers may develop a data bank with vast amounts of data on thousands of patients. "From this data base," he says, 'we can get a reading of the tests end eventually use test results as a predictive medium...
...friends approached him with the idea of starting an experimental theatre somewhere in the Boston area. Between the three of them, Samshak, the actor, Jerry Reagan, the actor-director, and Ron Beaton, the light technician, they had the necessary qualifications. So with what little money Samshak had in the bank, they rented a storefront in the cinder-block beauty of BRA's Castle Square and transformed it into a theatre. On October 5, 1967, the Atma Theatre (then known as the Atma Coffee-house) opened with Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape. The admission price was $1.50, and the coffee...
...latest of many austerity moves to hold off devaluation, the Bank of France is expected to announce this week another increase in the country's discount rate, which has been raised over the past year from 3½% to 6%. Such belt tightening has already fanned social unrest. Across France last week, normally docile merchants closed down their shops in a one-day protest against high taxes. Some even took to the streets and battled riot police...
...been routinely scourged for his chairmanship of the Federal Reserve Board, which Populist Patman blames for tight money and high interest rates. This year Patman has plenty of company. More critics than ever, ranging from academe to the new Administration, are taking aim at the nation's central bank...
Radical and Erratic. Bankers have been baffled by what many call the Federal Reserve's erratic and clumsy attempts at monetary "fine tuning." Even some of the Federal Reserve System's twelve regional banks have been resisting the board. Last week the New York Federal Reserve Bank reported that its officers had disagreed with board policy all through 1968, usually favoring even higher interest rates than the board voted. Some White House economists and many bankers argue that the board's autonomy must be ended...