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...irony for the company that invented such American-style trademarks as national merchandising, catalog shopping and even store-wide sales was that it was better at selling stocks, bonds, credit cards and insurance policies than it was at satisfying its core retail customers. Such financial ventures as its Coldwell Banker real estate unit, Allstate Insurance, Discover credit cards and Dean Witter are currently generating 90% of Sears' earnings, while income from its 860 retail stores has declined 33% this year. Rather than help Sears' growth, most analysts believe, the financial units only subsidized its failure to compete during the retail...
GEORGIA LAWYER BOBBY LEE COOK HAS MADE A career of goading government. His latest battle is an eleventh-hour effort to derail the Justice Department's prosecution of Christopher Drogoul, the banker accused of making $4 billion in loans to Saddam Hussein's regime before the invasion of Kuwait...
...family flew to Seattle shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941, and were jailed for being non-U.S. citizens travelling from Japan. Shklar's father, an international banker, was able to secure their release through contacts in New York...
Upon returning to Ireland she married fellow lawyer Nicholas Robinson, the son of a Protestant banker and a former political cartoonist for the Irish Times. She took on cases of sexual and employment disadvantage to women. She fought for legalizing birth control and divorce (or "the divorce," as it is known locally). For years she was active in the Labour Party, serving 20 years in the Senate, but her two attempts to run for the more powerful Dail, the lower house of Parliament, ended in defeat. She finally broke with the party because she thought it was intransigent...
...months earlier, West German police had arrested 16 members of his terrorist organization. Seized during the raids was a plastic bomb concealed in a Toshiba cassette player, similar to the one that blew up Flight 103. There was other evidence pointing to Jibril. His patron was Syria. His banker for the attack on the Pan Am plane appeared to be Iran. U.S. intelligence agents even traced a wire transfer of several million dollars to a bank account in Vienna belonging to the P.F.L.P.-G.C. Iran's motive seemed obvious enough. The previous July, the U.S.S. Vincennes had mistakenly shot down...