Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...difficulties. "You'd be shocked at the number of sophisticates who know nothing about the Pacific," he sighs. "On my first trip to Washington, one Congressman asked me what was the citizenship of the Guamanian people. When I tried to cash a Government of Guam check, one bank manager demanded the address of my embassy...
Only a week earlier, a distressed Anwar Sadat had told journalists that he was disappointed and embarrassed by Jimmy Carter's comments rejecting the concept of a Palestinian state on the West Bank of the Jordan River and the Gaza Strip. But after a 45-minute talk last week in Egypt's southern town of Aswan, the Egyptian and American Presidents once more proclaimed themselves in agreement. Sadat went so far as to say their views were "identical...
Judging by his past record, that bullish view may be a trifle myopic. In 1975 Pharaon bought control of Detroit's Bank of the Commonwealth, a rickety go-go institution that had been saved from bankruptcy only by the intervention of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Despite much talk of expansion, Pharaon in 1976 sold his interest in that bank to a Paris-based company. Nonetheless, he professes great faith in the U.S. banking business. Last September he bought 20% of Houston's Main Bank, in which former Treasury Secretary John Connally is a stockholder...
...deep-sea fishing. He boasts that he was the first businessman to bring Korean workers to labor-short Saudi Arabia, and is now employing Taiwanese. Nonetheless, he has yet to win acceptance from the international financial community, and the price he is paying for control of Lance's bank is bound to raise money-men's eyebrows...
...Clint's. We both have a particular audience that is loyal to us no matter what the critics say. With Clint, they want him to rip the bad guy's face off. With me, they want me to say those Don Rickles lines to people in authority?the bank clerk who won't cash your check, the traffic cop. And it even goes further, all the way up the lines of authority-even up to the President...