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...half a dozen giant companies are vying to become the leading one-stop financial shopping center. Smaller banks and regional brokerage firms are struggling to keep customers from defecting to national firms by stressing personal service and local connections. Some, like the American State Bank of Rapid City, S. Dak., which is being acquired by New York's Citibank, decided that it is easier and more profitable to sell...
...largest remaining synfuels project also looks a bit wobbly. That is the $2.1 billion, 750-employee Great Plains venture to extract synthetic gas from coal near Beulah, N. Dak. Great Plains, owned by five energy and utility firms, had planned to charge up to $10 per 1,000 cu. ft. of gas. But the facility, currently 70% complete, could charge no more than $6.25 per 1,000 cu. ft. because of the fall in fuel-oil prices, to which the gas rates are pegged. At those prices, Great Plains looks like a terrible investment for its owners. They are turning...
...nuclear arms control agreement still legally in force between the superpowers. As amended in 1974, it restricts each side to one ABM installation. The U.S. has already retired and put into storage its own Safeguard system that was protecting the Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile field at Grand Forks, N. Dak. The U.S.S.R. still has an operational ABM system surrounding Moscow. The ABM treaty is generally regarded as the most valuable achievement in the otherwise controversial and, to many, disappointing history of U.S.-Soviet arms negotiations...
Harvey, N. Dak...
Choice Consequences. Mason Neville, 45, had allegedly consumed nearly a case of beer when two policemen in Madison, S. Dak., pulled him over for running a stop sign. Asked to take a blood-alcohol test, Neville refused, even after a warning that failure to take the test could lead to a one-year loss of his driver's license. Could his refusal be used as evidence at trial? South Dakota's top court said no, but last week the Supreme Court said...