Word: closers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...banking industry's version of "The check's in the mail." Banks sometimes force customers to wait as long as a month to make sure that deposited checks do not bounce. But Congress moved closer last week to ending this widespread practice, which House Banking Committee Chairman Fernand St Germain calls a "shell game...
...Constitution authorizes separate legal regulation of the military forces. Each branch of the service had its own system until 1950, when the Uniform Code of Military Justice was adopted in response to complaints about disparities among the services. Since then, architects of military law have been moving it closer to civilian standards of trial procedure and evidence. Even before the U.S. Supreme Court's Miranda decision, military defendants were required to be informed of their rights before questioning, and the military contends that Lonetree and Bracy were properly informed of the right to silence...
...industry that is foundering by normal accounting standards. Last year the profits of all U.S. thrifts totaled $895 million, down from $3.85 billion in 1985. A year ago the 370 or so weakest institutions were hemorrhaging at the rate of $2.2 billion a year. Now those losses are running closer to an estimated $3.8 billion annually...
Puzzled Americans watched with concern four years ago as hundreds of thousands of West Europeans protested the deployment of the U.S. intermediate- range missiles that the allied governments had requested. Now, with the U.S. and the Soviet Union inching closer to an arms deal that would remove both American and Soviet missiles from Europe, some allies are upset by the development. Last week Kenneth Adelman, the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency director, summed up American exasperation with Europe's apparent inconsistency. Said Adelman in an interview with the West German weekly Stern: "We have a perception that they complain...
...oldest in the world, dating back to the year 930. Still, it is fairly bursting with modern ideas. Since 1983 the assembly has been home to the world's first feminist party to win parliamentary representation, the Women's Alliance. Last week the party came a step closer to wielding real power. On April 25, Icelandic voters ousted the center-right government of Prime Minister Steingrimur Hermannsson and in the process gave the Alliance 10% of the vote...