Word: closers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years, only to be sunk repeatedly by opposition from politically powerful commercial banks. The American Bankers Association has vowed "total, all-out opposition" to the Financial Institutions Act too, as had to be expected: its members would get little out of the bill except stronger competition and closer supervision...
...example: the $400 million-deposit Hamilton National Bank of Chattanooga fell victim last month to uncollectible real estate loans and its parent holding company, which once owned 17 banks with assets of $1.1 billion, followed it into bankruptcy a few days later. Rightly or wrongly, many Congressmen believe that closer regulation would have kept the banks from overextending themselves. So the creation of a new Federal Banking Commission seems almost certain, and the drive to tighten regulation has aroused new interest in much broader financial reform...
Understandably, the students I spoke to by and large feel distant from their impoverished countrymen. Poku-Appiah's three sisters all live in London, far from their native Kumasi, married to Ghanaians engaging in things like medicine and building contracting. Omar Rahman '79, from Dacca, Bangladesh, says: "I feel closer to people here than at home--but I'm not at home here either. I guess I'm somewhere in between. Rahman, whose mother is a biochemist with a Ph.D. from Yale and father holds an M.S. as an engineer from lowa, grew up speaking four languages (Bengali, Hindi, Urdu...
...life in San Quentin for armed robbery, happily married a 27-year-old outsider, Karen Toombs. Bratton and his wife were allowed a 19-hour honeymoon in the family housing unit. Said Bratton: "I think it's a great idea. It gives a man a chance to get closer with his woman. It helps you do time; it's something to look forward...
...hardships have been worth it, the couples testify "We're closer knit and healthier than we would be in a city," says Moore. The food at the evening meal is usually from the family garden-they eat meat only about twice a month. Says Swenson "I wanted to be economically independent of the 40-hour week. I wanted out of the pollution and overcrowding. I found the wilderness aspect of northern Maine just what I was searching...