Word: conn
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...about whether their deposits are still as safe as money in the bank. In recent months, newspaper reports of financial strains on local banks and savings and loan associations have brought crowds of agitated depositors into bank lobbies to withdraw their funds from cash-squeezed institutions in Miami, Hartford, Conn,, Abilene, Texas, and a number of other towns and cities. A recent survey by Burke Marketing Research Inc. of Cincinnati showed that nearly 90% of Americans questioned now have some concern about the stability of U.S. financial institutions. Only about 10% feel any real confidence in the present banking climate...
Willard J. Morse Jr., M.D. East Lyme, Conn...
Yale University President A. Bartlett Giamatti at Yale University in New Haven, Conn.: "In urging you beyond ideology, I offer the view of one person, one who is clearly middleaged, middleclass, middle of the road-a view of one not given to extremes but to the middle. My middle view is the view of the centrist. I do not simply urge a long night of watching against the ideologue's delusive plausibility. I urge the positive, balanced, continuous operation of the mind and spirit that surges to do the work of civilization from the center without simplistic zealotry...
Mexican Author and Diplomat Carlos Fuentes at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn.: "Nationalism represents a profound value for Latin Americans simply because of the fact that our nationhood is still in question. In New York, Paris or London, no one loses sleep asking themselves whether the nation exists. In Latin America you can wake up and find that the nation s no longer there, usurped by a military junta, a multinational corporation or an American ambassador surrounded by a jevy of technical advisers. That the junta in Buenos Aires, acting under the impression that it had been given the green...
...less than during the same months in 1978. The automakers continue to confront the problems that first triggered their prolonged slump: high interest rates, a weak economy and fierce competition from Japanese imports. Says Fran McCormack, general manager of Clayton Motors Dodge in East Hartford, Conn.: "There are obviously a lot of people who need to replace their cars who are still waiting for interest rates to come down. People live and breathe those rates...