Word: circuiter
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...valiant struggle by Chairman David G. Taylor to keep the bank afloat. "This is not the go-it-alone path we aspired to, but at this point it is the best course open to us," he told employees last week in a press conference carried on closed-circuit TV. Taylor, who was named head of Continental last February, became one of the first victims of the takeover. Both he and President Edward S. Bottum were ousted, although they will remain for an interim period as vice chairmen. The FDIC immediately named new top officers and asked for the resignations...
...made the U.S. public gun shy, but rather more inclined to protect the national interest through non-violent means. It seems, however, that Karnow is underestmating the sway Vietnam holds over the thinking of the 18-25 crowd, which forms a large part of Karnow's lecture-circuit audience...
...While touring an Army depot in Corpus Christi, Texas, investigators found 63 cartons from the Kingsville Naval Air Station labeled 200 LBS. OF ELECTRONIC SCRAP. Inside the cartons were 300 brand-new electronic circuit boards still in the manufacturer's packaging. As scrap each circuit assembly would bring a few dollars, but investigators found that the Navy is buying them...
...Robins executives subsequently filed a complaint with the U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, arguing that the judge had "methodically destroyed their personal and professional reputations" and "grossly abused his office." The complainants asked that he be reprimanded...
...ferocious performance as its bedeviled protagonist (a less-gay gay the movies have never offered) and by the mysteriously growing repute of Director Paul Verhoeven (he was responsible for the stodgy Soldier of Orange and the ugly Spelters), The 4th Man is bobbing prosperously along the art circuit, a midsummer night's titillation for the would-be with-its. But the movie's ultimate fate, surely, is to be celebrated, along with Pink Flamingos and its ilk, at the midnight masses of the lavender thrill...