Word: chases
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week four major New York City banks -- Chase Manhattan, Chemical, Irving Trust and Manufacturers Hanover -- paid fines totaling $1.2 million for failing to tell federal authorities about more than $1 billion in cash transactions. While the banks were not accused of knowingly laundering money, they admitted laxity in complying with a 1980 rule requiring financial institutions to report any cash transaction involving more than $10,000. At the moment, the federal clampdown is relying on tools like the reporting regulation because there is no law that defines laundering as a crime. Earlier this month the Reagan Administration introduced legislation...
...officials deny that Administration pressure influenced their decision. Barry Chase, vice president for news and public affairs programming, points out that the original series evoked numerous complaints from veterans and Vietnamese refugees, and he contends that the AIM show is a legitimate way to air some of those concerns. "I think a response mechanism of some sort is badly needed on TV," says Chase. "And there's no reason in the world why a producer ought not to respond to attacks...
...struggles in American industry are fiercer than the one now being waged between the Davids and Goliaths of the banking world. As such giants as Citicorp, Chase Manhattan and Bank of America press their campaign for unlimited interstate banking, smaller lenders are fighting back. Last week the Supreme Court dealt the big guys a major blow. In an 8-to-0 vote, the court ruled that local institutions can form regional networks that shut out larger rivals based in other states...
...record, this is the 14th James Bond film and the seventh to star Roger | Moore. The opening thrill sequence is once again a ski chase. The most exotic (or should one say grotesque?) of his several love interests (or should one say sex objects?) is the black pantheresque model, Grace Jones. The villain, joylessly played by Christopher Walken, this time schemes improbably to blast open the San Andreas Fault, wiping out Silicon Valley so that he can corner the microchip market. If the picture did not carry the credits of Writers Richard Maibaum and Michael G. Wilson and Director John...
...kind of man you could give a job to and just forget about it yourself knowing that it would be well done," recalls retired Chase Vice President John D. Wilson, who recruited a young Volcker 28 years...