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Questions on the report will likely focus on"the attitude of the University towards the Coretoday," said Andreas Beroutsos '88, a member ofthe council's Academics Committee, which wrote thereport
Changing the Glass-Steagall Act is the focus of the current power struggle between the country's financial giants. The battle is as much psychological as political. The legislation, which also created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, was enacted to protect the public from irresponsible banks like those that invested depositors' savings in highly speculative securities prior to the Great Crash of 1929. As a result, the separation of commercial and investment-banking functions by Glass-Steagall still has tremendous populist appeal. But in official Washington, as Fed Chairman Volcker put it in Senate testimony last January, opposition to giving...
...sizes for women, has undergone a startling transformation since it was acquired in 1982 by the Limited, the Columbus-based women's apparel conglomerate (1986 net sales: $3.1 billion). The 87-year-old Lane Bryant has abandoned its self- admitted former image as a purveyor of shapeless smocks to focus on younger customers who are interested in big-scale style. The new formula is working. The number of Lane Bryant stores has tripled so far, from 214 in 1982 to 600. An additional 190 outlets are scheduled to open during the remainder...
Dorwart said that both the availability andquality of services may be affected byprivitization. The study will not focus on theissue of quality, but "establish a base-line ofdata about the kinds of services available, andwho is receiving these services," he said...
Long before Baby M. there was Little Gloria Vanderbilt, focus of the 1934 custody trial that, she now writes, "captured people's imagination very much the way a television series like Dynasty does in this present day." The story of Vanderbilt's public childhood was well told in Once Upon a Time. Part two of the autobiography also has its share of notoriety. At 17, the budding beauty leaves Aunt Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's cloistered Long Island estate for an extended visit with her mother, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, in lively Beverly Hills. There she goes for older men, like...