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...bankers try to diversify into new financial services, in order to compete with Sears, Merrill Lynch and the other money bazaars, they are pushing boldly into once forbidden fields, including insurance, stock brokerage and interstate banking. Congress has been slow in passing legislation that would control entry into these areas, so financiers have gone ahead on their own. Says C. Robert Brenton, former president of the American Bankers Association: "The Government has no vision for the evolution of the financial-services system in this country. We are quickly putting together a jerry-built financial structure, which includes flaws that work...
...dutiful expressions of gratitude can yield useful information about the works they precede. This first full-length biography of T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) is a case in point. After acknowledging away for nearly two pages, Peter Ackroyd, an English critic and poet, concludes with a terse paragraph: "I am forbidden by the Eliot estate to quote from Eliot's published work, except for purposes of fair comment in a critical context, or to quote from Eliot's unpublished work or correspondence...
...Washington, including CIA Director William Casey and U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, seem to believe that in the long run it is impossible to deal with the Sandinistas. They would prefer to see the Managua regime ousted from power, although any action by the U.S. toward that end is expressly forbidden by a 1982 resolution of Congress. More moderate officials, including Shultz, believe that diplomacy can play a role in curbing Nicaragua's radical tendencies. In their view, the U.S. must show that it has the power and the will to halt the spread of Communism, but that should...
Annas added that unreasonable operations should be strictly forbidden. "Everyone gave up, on xenograph transplants ten years ago, and I have found no new literature to suggest any improvement in the technique...
Director Mitchell discovered a similar legend of unrequited love in southern Louisiana, as well as local Creole social customs which allowed him to transpose the classic story: in the mid-19th century, a daughter of a recently freed salve was forbidden to marry a son of a family who had been freed in the 18th century. This Giselle, in love with Albert (whose family had already been free for a century), could never marry him. This tragedy stems from their frustrated love...