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...truly impossible lines -the stuff about art being a more reliable lover than any man can be, for example. Somehow, she manages to throw all that stuff away gracefully and emerge likable. It is a little triumph of professional grace for Remick, who must be one of the busiest-and best-actresses around (see following story...
...through the conservative trend of the country was obvious from the results. Regan's mandate was a good deal less than indicated by his 489 electoral votes or by Wall Street's thunderous vote of approval the next day (79 million shares traded, the second busiest day in the New York Stock Exchange's history, and a jump of nearly 16 points in the Dow-Jones average). His victory was surely not so much an endorsement of his philosophy as an overwhelming rejection of Jimmy Carter, a President who could not convince the nation that he mastered...
...airport should be less of an ordeal. Although the outermost gates are a mile from the terminals, underground electric monorail cars will whisk people to the planes at 25 m.p.h. Expected to carry 250,000 riders a day, the airport monorail will be the nation's fifth busiest rapid transit system, ranking ahead of San Francisco's 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...
...past three years, however, operations were automated, and Chase introduced such innovations for its customers as bill paying by phone and computerized tellers in some of New York's busiest stores. A group of new executives was recruited to replace some of the about 600 who had been fired. Lackadaisical loan officers became aggressive, and in August Chase led the Eurodollar market by participating in 46 major syndicated loans totaling $1.7 billion...
Buyers, including the banks, pension funds and other large institutions that account for 70% of share-trading activity, have been so eager to buy stocks that a total of 1,021 billion shares changed hands in July alone, the second busiest month in Wall Street history; the heaviest was last January, when prices also rose sharply, only to be sent plunging down later when inflation and interest rates climbed into double digits. The hunger for stocks has lifted not only the Dow's lately depressed industrials but also the broad stock averages. Since the end of March, the composite...