Word: credited
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...loan could have been for as much as $3.4 million-Lance was vague on the precise amount-and came from London's Bank of Credit & Commerce International, on whose behalf Lance had approached Financial General with a bid for control. Or maybe the loan was from B.C.C.I. and a subsidiary. Lance said he used it last January to pay off his celebrated $3.4 million loan from the First National Bank of Chicago, and that was the only point on which he was definite. The latest loan, he said, was arranged by Agha Hassan Abedi, an energetic Pakistani who heads...
...story plays it false, makes it seem somehow a schematic representation of a textbook family, when in fact the people of Paradise are carefully particularized. The film is the first time that Gunnel Lindblom, an actress in several Ingmar Bergman movies, has directed (Bergman has the producer's credit). Her touch is usually delicate. Even the unhappy ending is understated, though there is a hint of further tragedy to come. There will be more to this family's life, and not all, of it a misery, before we write finis either to it or to the institution...
Certainly Chicago has withstood the termite trends better than New York, the ancient source of its inferiority complex. and such closer rivals as Detroit and Cleveland. And certainly Daley, who dominated the city's political back rooms and front parlors, must get credit. His death 1 5 months ago after almost 22 years as mayorissimo was truly a national event...
...concluded a deal that was revealed early last week. West Germany will lend the U.S. an additional $2 billion worth of deutsche marks that Washington can use to buy up surplus dollars on the exchange markets. That doubles the Treasury's line of credit at the West German central bank in Frankfurt. In addition, the U.S. may sell $740 million worth of IMF Special Drawing Rights ("paper gold") to the Germans for deutsche marks, and it proposes to borrow as much as $5 billion of foreign currencies from the IMF. That $5 billion credit already existed. Hence...
...which benefit all South Africans." It did not say what guidelines it would follow to make sure its loans achieved a multiracial purpose. Nonetheless, activist groups that have been pushing U.S. companies to get out of South Africa were happy that such a major bank had actually cut off credit to the government. Says Woody Connette, lawyer for the United Church of Christ Board for World Ministries: "We can use it [the Citibank decision] as leverage in approaching other large lenders...