Word: branches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Merrill Lynch fired William Dillon, 33, a financial consultant in its New London, Conn., office. Prudential Bache dismissed Brian Callahan, 28, a broker in its Anaheim, Calif., branch. Another investment firm, Advest, suspended an unnamed broker in its Hartford office...
...very high cost of such a system cannot be ignored. Another option consistent with Dukakis' position would be the deployment of Minuteman in multiple protective shelters (the so- called shell game). The real test for the next President is whether he can achieve a consensus within his own Executive Branch and with Congress. This Administration has utterly failed to do that...
...raced over to his house, but he wasn't there. So I kept going back until finally I fell asleep on his doorstep. At 2 in the morning my client returned, and I apologized. We have been friends ever since." Now that Idotsuji is manager of the Nomura branch in the Kichijoji district of Tokyo, he expects the same dedication from his salesmen. Like fierce drill sergeants, Nomura bosses demand hard work and unflagging discipline. Says one employee: "Everyone works like...
...driven dog, at that. At the Kichijoji branch, a section chief gives his sales force a pep talk at 8 a.m. "The world is watching the movements of top- ranked Nomura, and that means right here in Kichijoji," he says. "Put in everything you have, and take the best care of your customers." On the fourth floor, Sales Manager Hidetoshi Koizumi orders his troops to ring up 60 stock sales among themselves that day. "I want you to go all out," he admonishes. Tension often runs high. Recalls an ex-employee who worked in sales for three years: "The metal...
...Atlanta's now a great city in one way only," Pat Conroy wrote in a letter to the Constitution last fall. "It's a fabulous city for business." The business statistics tossed off now are not about branch offices but about facilities of foreign companies. The airport is spoken of not as simply a place to catch a plane to Meridian but as a place to catch a plane to London. In the dreams of the boosters, the final certification of international-city status will come when Atlanta, which has the American designation in the competition for host city...