Word: banke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fired Foursome. As a result, Carter filed suit, charging that his "arbitrary and capricious" discharge had violated his right to privacy as well as his future employment prospects. Later, when Carter applied for a job in a Washington bank, two of his three roommates loyally volunteered character-reference letters to help offset the stigma of being an ex-FBI man at 25. The third refused to help Carter; instead, he told his superiors about his friends' action, which also violates the FBI code. The upshot was that all three-including the informer-were pressed to resign because none...
...panel members charged that the Alliance was drifting back toward bilateral "program" aid, which helps a country balance its budget or pay for imports. Though such aid ostensibly frees a nation's own resources for development projects, it may, in the end, develop nothing more than big, private bank accounts. Washington experts flatly denied such policy shifts, writing off the charges as an attempt by the panel to salve its injured pride. "Nine wise men?" snapped one Washington hand. "Ridiculous. Call them nine wise guys...
...that time, the SEC indictment said that Lamont was the only one of the 13 not to have received personal gain from the transaction. He was allowed only to have telephoned one of the bank's other officers and given him advance notice of the ore discovery. The bank subsequently purchased 8000 shares of stock for its clients...
...squandered about $3 million a year on stamp collecting, orchid culture, private railroad cars, teen-age girls, luxurious yachts and diamond-studded chamber pots. Green sometimes traveled with a battered Gladstone valise stuffed with $10,000 bills. Once when he was visiting Dallas, the president of the Security National Bank appealed to Green to help him stanch a run on the bank. Green counted 20 ten-grand notes out of his wallet and then sent a bellboy to his hotel suite to fetch his valise, which was on the bed. From that, he produced 30 additional $10,000 bills, then...
Glints of Skill. Behind Cortázar's stubbornly obscurantist prose falls the shadow of a story. Its central figure is Oliveira, one of a group of frayed Left Bank intellectuals who read Carson McCullers, play old Coleman Hawkins records and dither boozily about reality. Oliveira is a man suffering from "world-ache" and Baudelairean tastes; the two go together. He is later seen in Buenos Aires, where he has gone either to look for La Maga, whom he has lost, or for his own identity, which he has never found. In the company of old friends, he meanders...