Word: clausen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Timidity was hardly his trademark during eleven years as the head of San Francisco's Bank of America. Yet when A.W. (Alden Winship) Clausen, 58, moved into the president's office of his latest assignment last Wednesday, he sounded properly cautious. Said the new leader of the $40 billion World Bank: "I'm not a hip-shooter. I do my homework...
...interest rates permitted there. San Francisco's Bank of America has opened branches in Seattle, Dallas, Minneapolis and Cleveland to finance export business for corporations in those cities. These branches could easily increase their services if interstate banking is permitted. Bank of America's outgoing president, A.W. Clausen, praised the White House proposal, saying that "interstate banking will foster a competitive market benefiting consumers...
...relevant to Austin's literary evolution as Werden's thoughts on evolving womanhood is the dynamic outburst of newcomer Andy Clausen, who speaks daringly for the working class in colloquial language, describing the passions of a poetic soul trying to fulfill the mundane requirements of job and family. Clausen gained important support in San Francisco, where he published Renegade, from Beat hero Allen Ginsberg, who last year staged a reading at a local Austin club called Liberty Lunch for the purpose of exposing Clausen, whom Ginsberg calls "a great poet." If there are to be any popular stars...
...best recent example of the Texas-international poetry confluence came in a rare Gregory Corse reading last April. Corse, originally a New Yorker but known as one of the wildest of the Fifties San Francisco Beats, joined with Kuzminsky (cursing in Russian), Clausen (singing and bellowing for all people who didn't know how to write), and Eleanor Crockett (descendant of Davy), whose magnetic subleties floated above the gut level expression of the men with whom she shared the stage...
...down after his 65th birthday next June 9, Carter briefly considered former United Nations Ambassador Andrew Young for the post. But when he tested the idea privately, Democratic advisers and businessmen vetoed the nomination as too controversial. Administration officials had also begun drawing up a list of suitable candidates. Clausen was on the list of ten names presented to Carter because he had both an international-finance background and an interest in the problems of the developing world. Some other names on the list were said to be Paul Volcker, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Anthony Solomon, former Under...