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...make up 11% of the U.S. electorate, feel increasingly left out of the American economic system and political process. Since 1964, when a record 59% of black voters went to the polls, the turnout has steadily shrunk; in 1976, it was only 49%. "It is informed apathy," says Columbus Keepler, field services director for the Atlanta-based Voter Education Project, which was in the forefront of the Southern voter registration drives of the 1960s. "Many people voted once or twice and didn't see anything happen, so they don't vote any more." But as Carter showed...
...Lisker to conclude that "it's fairly obvious that he [Billy] misled me, that he lied." On Jan. 16, Lisker and an FBI investigator asked Billy if he had received any money from Libya. Billy said no. But last week Lisker obtained a deposit slip from the Columbus Bank and Trust Co. of Columbus, Ga., showing that Billy deposited a $20,000 check from the Libyans...
Some bankers are particularly resentful of Merrill Lynch's trampling ways. If the company were a bank, its assets would make it the 22nd largest in the country. Competing financiers argue that the firm has unfair advantages over them. Through an arrangement with Bank One of Columbus, Ohio, customers in California or New Jersey, for example, can open a money-market-fund account in their local Merrill Lynch office and then write checks or use a credit card against their balances in the Ohio bank. Federal regulations confine regular banks to doing business in the state where they...
...Yevgeni Liberman Columbus...
...Columbus, two winters ago, Furniture Executive Ernest Stern, 57, had helped his employees lift a cabinet. Then he pushed a stalled car in front of his house and shoveled snow from his driveway. These exertions made his back feel somewhat stiff, but he decided to keep a tennis date anyway. That was a mistake. After the first serve, Stern's back gave way, and he had to be helped off the court...