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...monetary policy to influence the course of the economy. The bill would make foreign banks operating in the U.S. subject to the same restrictions as domestic banks. That provision would stop the foreign banks from operating in several states at the same time, as some now do, to the dismay of domestic banks, which are confined to one state...
...Business had been rippingly good, so the proprietor of P.F.F. Inc., a front for a fencing operation in Washington, D.C., decided to throw a party for customers to celebrate five months of successful traffic in stolen goods. But to the dismay of the purse snatchers, car thieves and assorted other heist artists who showed up for the blast, P.F.F. Inc. turned out to stand for Police-FBI Fencing Incognito, the largest and most successful undercover undertaking in the city's history. Last week when the party was over, 126 people had been arrested, among them an assistant federal prosecutor...
...Committee member expressed dismay over the mediocrity which he considered characteristic of both faculty and student output at the GSD. Other members concurred with his impression of a pervading boredom and lack of excitement resulting from a lack of a sense of purpose. Members were very concerned that 1974 GSD questionnaire results indicate only 39 per cent of GSD graduates as a whole considered their GSD training "very useful," while 49 per cent found it "somewhat useful" and 12 per cent found it of little or no use. One member suggested, however, that the current students' complaints about the quality...
...become "in." Dr. Ronald Fieve of the New York State Psychiatric Institute, who treated Logan, trumpets lithium in his book Moodswing (William Morrow and Co.) as the start of a revolution in psychiatry in which drug cures will supersede psychoanalysis and other therapies aimed at emotional change. To the dismay of many Freudians, Fieve said that Freud's classic analysis of the "Wolf Man" was a failure, and that the patient, a severely disturbed Russian aristocrat, could have been cured quickly with lithium...
Stanford University, often called the "Harvard of the West,"* has no problem filling its freshman class each year with straight-A students. Because good grades came so easily to these students in high school, however, many enter Stanford with slovenly and inefficient study habits. To their dismay, they discover that they have trouble handling the university's more rigorous academic demands...