Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...patent #1,664,397 on a golf ball "with chemical pockets dotting the outer skin." When the ball impacted the pockets burst, releasing a miasma of ammonium chloride. This simple method of chemical detection would definitely be a boon to the golfer traipsing his way through a snow bank in search of the elusive pill...
...ISRAELI CABINET'S announcement last Sunday that the Begin government will continue to promote settlements in the occupied territories of the Sinai peninsula and the West Bank of the Jordan River is as disappointing to Israel's friends as it must be maddening to her foes. Coming at a time when the much-vaunted Sadat initiative appears to be losing momentum, the cabinet's action has vitiated any lingering hopes of a quick peace settlement while creating even greater obstacles to any future negotiations...
Since the '60s kids still hold relatively junior jobs, their influence remains limited. But just wait a while. Says Stephen McLin, 31, planning vice president for the Bank America Corp.: "The people from my generation are not driving the ship yet, but we can shape a little of what goes on. In a few years, we will take the helm...
...Massachusetts has sold $700,000 of such securities. The Oregon state board of higher education, which administers 13 colleges, has voted to divest itself of stock valued at $6 million. Tufts University has sold $200,000 of stock in Citicorp, a holding company that through its First National City Bank has made loans to South Africa. The University of Wisconsin has been advised by the state attorney general to sell $9 million worth of holdings in companies with South African subsidiaries, as well as stock in any firms with Saudi Arabian and Soviet connections. The reason: state law forbids...
...evidence that the book had been obtained by burglary. The editorial pointed out reasonably enough that when a publisher goes into the business of both "news books" and newspapers, "it is almost certain to bump into some of its most deeply held journalistic principles on the way to the bank." But then the Post accused the Times of "managing the news" by -trying to maintain a predetermined publication date-although protecting a publication or release date is hardly what is generally understood by management or suppression of news. Even more absurdly, the Post compared its scoop to the Times disclosure...