Word: banke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tomorrow carved out of the wilderness. Its unfinished cathedral is designed in the shape of a gigantic crown of concrete thorns. Its Congress building looks like a huge cup and saucer. Its population areas are laid out in Orwellian modules, with all the foreign-ministry officials living here, the bank employees there, the military officers over there. Artificially created to open up the frontier and shift the country's balance westward, Brasilia was long considered the "mad city" that Ku-bitschek built, was shunned by officials, who preferred to spend their time in Rio. But Brasilia has been made...
...annual board meeting that finances now seemed back on the track. There was a new engineer too: Banker George S. Moore, 65, longtime treasurer of the Met, who succeeded Anthony Bliss as president. Moore, who likes to arrive at his office at Manhattan's First National City Bank ahead of the money, took to telephoning Met General Manager Ru dolf Bing by 8:15 a.m. Wailed Bing, after one such early-morning dingaling: "George, please! Why don't you go make your first million for the day before you call...
...homeowner into making improvements such as installing a new heating system or aluminum siding. The owner signed a credit agreement. The work, usually cheap and shoddy, got done and the fast-buck men sold the credit agreement at a discount to a broker, commercial finance firm or a bank. If too many angry and defrauded homeowners threatened, the company simply folded. It was a business particularly vulnerable to bad publicity, and Karafin and Scolnick said so to one of its practitioners, Joe Py. Public Relations Man Karafin, they said, could help Py. He had a lot of friends and could...
...race begins near the bridge that carries the MTA across the Charles and ends a mile and three-quarters upstream at the old M.I.T. boathouse. The favorite vantage point for the races is one the Cambridge bank at the finish line, reachable by a short drive down Mem Drive...
...minor actress, had her struck from the payroll, then came to her apartment with an offer that rivals Rumpelstilts-kin's: "I would like you to have a child by me. On the day you are certified to be pregnant, I will put $75,000 in a bank under your name. On the day the child is delivered to me, our relationship is over. . ." The proposal was turned down. Cohn restored the girl to her job-and never spoke to her again...