Word: bankerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Michael Blumenthal, the outspoken Secretary of the Treasury. Nominated to replace him was G. William Miller, the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board since 1977. Miller will be succeeded temporarily at the Federal Reserve by Frederick Schultz, a former Florida banker and Carter crony, who was confirmed as a board member by the Senate only last week...
Next on the hit list is Sidney Weinberg Jr., a partner of Goldman, Sachs, the investment banker. Rogers plans a nationwide campaign to force him out as a Stevens director. After that the union will probably try to push Finley off the boards of Sperry Rand and Borden...
...Party politician and ophthalmologist; Jaime Chamorro Cardenal, 46, an engineer, and brother of the late anti-Somoza newspaper editor Pedro Joaquin Chamorro, whose widow is already a member of the junta; Mariano Fiallos Oyanguren, 45, rector of the University of Nicaragua; and Ernesto Fernández Holmann, 38, a banker and economist. The names were intended for San José, where junta members would be asked to add as many as four of the people to the provisional government; meanwhile Vaky, hoping to build support for the proposal among other Latin American nations, visited Colombia and the Dominican Republic...
...reproductions in order to encourage a wide distribution. Critics questioned this unusual behavior--didn't Rockefeller believe in the pride of sole ownership and the satisfaction of a meaty price tag? Obviously Rockefeller didn't just view art as money on the wall, aesthetic stocks and bonds. "A banker once admired some Picassos of mine," he says, "When I told him they were reproductions, he said they had lost all meaning for him. I said you mean they've lost any sense of monetary value...
Whatever the merits of this mindset, it is deeply disturbing to experts on Arabia−and to none more than Minos Zombanakis, a Crete-born and Harvard-educated banker who straddles two worlds. For over 20 years, Zombanakis, 52, has been advising Arabs and Iranians on how to deal with Western executives, and vice versa. He knows the Saudis about as well as any Westerner can. He ranges far from his elegant London offices, where he has been the international chief for a series of American banks: initially Manufacturers Hanover, then First Boston, now Blyth Eastman Dillon...