Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Iowa, plus Detroit, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Pittsburgh, Atlanta, Birmingham, Dallas-Fort Worth, Denver and San Francisco-Oakland...
...will have a population of 258 million (see map), a combined gross national product that is expected to total $660 billion in 1971 (compared with an estimated $1,058 billion for the U.S. this year), and almost twice as much gold in their reserves as there is in Fort Knox. The Ten now account for one-third of the world's trading...
...cars for a flat fee of $190 per car and group of four passengers. It will leave the new Alexandria station at 8 p.m., stop only for brief crew changes, and arrive at 11 o'clock the following morning in Sanford, a pleasent 3½-hour drive from Fort Lauderdale or Miami...
...authors of the church-as-Fort Knox school, the favorite target, naturally enough, is the Roman Catholic Church and its prosperous American branch. Five years ago, Business Journalist James Gollin (Pay Now, Die Later), a nonpracticing Jew, decided it was time to stop the guesswork and to start investigating the secret church accounts. He distills his results in Worldly Goods (Random House; $10), a fascinating book and the first reliable report on American Catholic wealth...
...found that United's ticketing and check-in facilities were grossly inadequate, and ordered them to be improved. "That kind of decision should not be left to the president of the company," he says. "To the headquarters in Chicago, the problem of a check-in counter in Fort Lauderdale is not so important. But it will be important to the new East Coast division...