Word: banker
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Sizable Following. Since the elder Papandreou's party has continued to have a large plurality in Parliament even after his resignation, Greece has had to get along ever since with caretaker governments. The last one, led by Banker loannis Paraskevopoulos, was formed to carry the country through elections planned for late May. But Andreas' alleged activities brought down that government, too. His foes charged that he was the grey eminence behind Aspida (meaning shield), a plot in which a group of junior army officers sought in 1965 to install a socialist regime. Fifteen officers were jailed after...
...reacting to an earlier drop from 6% to 51% in the prime rate-the interest rate that commercial banks charge blue-chip customers. The Board's decision was less a tribute to Lyndon than an acknowledgment of sorts to Chase Manhattan Bank President David Rockefeller, the first banker to lower the prime rate, and the man who held fast to his decision despite opposition from competitors...
...past nine years, while playing its problem-loaded role of banker and Santa Claus to the free world...
...thing for a hockey player to pose for collar ads, for a baseball manager to turn banker, for a track star to get elected to Congress-or even for an ex-boxer to take up 32 lines in Who's Who. But when a rodeo cowboy drifts into town in his own $11,500 airplane, passes up the saloons and heads instead for Howard Johnson's-"because I like the ice cream"-well, respectability has crossed the last frontier...
...political leaders have been laggardly, businessmen have not. And perhaps the Common Market's most notable achievement is a new state of mind in Europe's business community. "The most important success of the Common Market," says Baron Jean-Charles Snoy et d'Oppuers, Belgian banker and a signer of the Rome treaty, "has been in changing the attitudes of Europe's businessmen. An immense amount of capital investment has been made on the assumption of the larger market. This is something indestructible, and this huge stake in the success of the Common Market...