Word: doned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...small daughters and may not find it safe to come back. For she practices a kind of art that has made her one of the less popular artists in Manhattan. Sturtevant's thing is line-for-line copies of virtually every top pop painter and sculptor. She has "done" Segal, Wesselmann, Oldenburg, Stella, Johns, Lichtenstein, Rosenquist and Warhol with such loving cunning and accomplished accuracy that she makes them all look slightly ridiculous. If the ideal of pop is to reproduce banality literally, then Sturtevant has carried the ideal to its logical but infuriating conclusion-by reproducing the literal...
...basic old industries like primary metals and insurance offer some of the lowest salaries in U.S. business. Reasons: they have always done so, and their earnings tend to be modest. Railroads, insurance firms and public utilities are also at the bottom end of the ladder, largely because they are heavily regulated by Government, which limits profits. In addition, companies in the low-paying industries often favor a committee form of decision making that minimizes risk and personal initiative. They tend to promote from within; security and seniority are highly regarded. By contrast, industries that seek executives from the outside...
...activation of the International Monetary Fund's "special drawing rights" as the best immediate way to expand the monetary reserves needed to finance world commerce. The SDKs will come into being after 67 of the IMF's 111 member nations approve. So far only 36 have done so, but enough new ratifications should come through to enable the IMF to create SDKs by year's end. The first installment will probably amount to about $2.5 billion, which will be added to the world's reserves of $73 billion. The SDR plan will...
Outside Advice. There are also some promising newcomers. Three that have done well are Seattle's Liberty Bank, Kansas City's Swope Parkway National Bank and Boston's Unity Bank and Trust Co. All were started only last year, riding the wave of black consciousness. All got support from white bankers or businessmen...
Business at Unity is done in a deliberately casual atmosphere designed to put people at ease. Rock music plays softly from loudspeakers. Bank employees banter with people who just drop in to have a neighborly chat. "We're more than a bank," says Sneed. "If we have to say no to a customer, we say, 'No. Because...