Word: banke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Heath thus got an overall majority of two but fell 28 short of the 15% winning margin that the rules require. A second ballot was thus in order, but Maudling, reached at lunch with fellow directors of his bank, saw that a clear choice had been made. In the interests of party unity, he telephoned Heath his congratulations and withdrew his own candidacy...
...first week of Paris showings of fall clothes, things were so dull that buyers and critics began to get that feeling that afflicts spectators at some theaters-in-the-round-they found themselves oppressively aware of staring past the actors into a bank of other spectators, all staring back. This reciprocal glare produced nothing worth looking at until Carroll Baker came to town...
Heat by light recently got its biggest vote of confidence from two Chicago companies. The First National Bank of Chicago, which is about to start construction on a 60-story structure in the shape of a curved, inverted V, plans to use a similar system to heat the entire building. Last month, the John Hancock Insurance Co. announced that the 34 floors of office space in its planned 100-story, combination office-apartment building (TIME, April 2) will also be heated with light...
Most important, the personal income of the average American continues to rise three times as fast as the cost of living. Said the Chase Manhattan Bank's bimonthly newsletter last week: "While price indexes may drift up gradually, as they have in the past seven years, the real prices people and business have to pay have not increased on the average. And this means that there has been no real price inflation...
Southeast Asia's local bankers have customarily operated on two principles: keep interest rates up and keep controversies with the government down. The maverick Bangkok Bank has reversed both principles, yet has become the largest commercial bank in Thailand. It has increased its assets tenfold in the past ten years (to $180 million), and since 1960 has doubled its number of branches. Besides its 42 domestic locations, the bank also has nine foreign outposts, from Saigon to London. Last week, while designing a 16-story home office that will be Bangkok's tallest building, the bank was also...