Word: branches
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...financial immigrants initially came to this country to serve their own large companies like Sony. Soon, however, they began lending to American firms and setting up branch offices to seek out local business. Willing to sacrifice profits to build markets, the foreign banks have regularly undercut their U.S. competitors. Gulf Oil, for example, last spring borrowed $70 million from a group headed by West Germany's Commerzbank, which shaved an estimated ¾ point off the prevailing 20% interest rate. Since 1972 the number of American offices of foreign banks has soared from...
This magic pill theory has long been popular in the running community, particularly among middle-aged males, a group that is at especially high coronary risk. The theory's most outspoken advocate is Dr. Thomas Bassler, an Inglewood, Calif., pathologist. Dr. William C. Roberts, chief of the pathology branch of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, and Colleague Bruce Waller have provided clinical evidence that Bassler is wrong. They studied the cases of five middle-aged men, 40 to 53, who died while running, including Maryland Congressman Goodloe Byron, a six-time Boston Marathon finisher...
...Coop's expansion in the last year accounts for much of the large rebate, James A. Argeros, general manager of the Coop said. The Coop recently opended a new women's shop next to the Annex and a new branch on Federal St., Argeros added. The Coop has also expanded its luggage, sporting goods, electronic goods, and young men's departments. "We're the Macy's of collegiate bookstores," Argeros said...
Inhabiting the fourteenth floor of Westinghouse headquarters by Pittsburgh's Momanghela River, Market Research and Analysis (MR&A) serves the corporation's Power Systems Company, the branch that manufactures nuclear energy systems and other large scale equipment. MR&A's responsibilities run the gamut from publishing the corporation's major planning document to dealing with all brands of public relations...
...BART, which hauls 160,000 passengers daily. Moving sidewalks, computerized baggage handling, and a one-stop security checkpoint equipped with twelve electronic screening devices will also minimize the Hartsfield hassle. By 1985 travelers will be able to reach downtown Atlanta, nine miles away, in 17 minutes on a new branch of the Atlanta metro. Although designers spent $450,000 on contemporary art at the airport, most critics were unimpressed. Quipped Atlanta Journal Columnist Ron Hudspeth: "They could have gotten off much cheaper with a couple of velvet bullfighter scenes from K mart...