Word: bartow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Smith, 33, president of the $ 15 million Bartow County Bank in Cartersville, Ga., says he is not concerned that big money managers will take away his business. Like many small, rural bankers, Smith borrows low and lends low to customers he knows. He can keep his rate below the rate of other banks because 35% of his deposits are in non-interest-bearing checking accounts, and 10% are in 5¼%-interest passbook accounts. Last winter another nearby bank installed an automated-teller machine, but Smith notes that it is hardly ever used. Says he: "What all this is telling...
They can tell me Clean Gene Bartow stories until I die, but I won't believe that Kentucky lost yesterday...
...just can't be true. Bartow's employer, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, has only been fielding a basketball team for three years. Its first NCAA tournament game ever was way back on Friday night, a 93-68 blowout over Western Kentucky. That was Western Kentucky--a noble team, to be sure, but the accent is on the Western. This was the U of K, the fearsome Wildcats, the squad with the longest tradition of quality basketball in the country. UCLA is a come-laiely compared to the Blue and White...
...think it's great to see UCLA knocked off by Brigham Young--good for the sport when those titans lose. And that sure was stirring watching tiny St. Joseph's squeak past big, bed, top-ranked DePaul. But Kentucky? UAB? Gene Bartow...
...Bartow Monterey, Calif...