Word: fronts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Britain's giant National Westminster P.L.C. likes to advertise itself as the "Action Bank." Last week the action made front-page headlines when four of the bank's top executives, including chairman Lord Boardman, resigned. The NatWest shake-up, unprecedented in British banking, followed a July 20 report by the Department of Trade and Industry that accused the institution's investment-bank subsidiary of having "deliberately misled" stock-market investors and broken British corporate laws. The report said the wrongdoing occurred when a $1.35 billion stock offering by an employment-services company called Blue Arrow flopped and NatWest ended...
...make better doors. The revolving ones at the bottom of most office towers may save energy, but they are hopelessly inefficient at moving people. Cram as many stores as possible along the streets to bring them alive. Do away with skywalks, abolish sunken plazas and tear down walls in front of parks and playgrounds, because they all increase isolation from the city experience...
...here we were, merrily canoeing down the Delaware River. Well, Julia in the back was merrily canoeing. I was up front watching for rocks with an expression as tense as George Washington's. (But remember, he crossed the Delaware in "leisure water...
...soon noticed that in all the other mixed-sex canoes, the male was in the back (doing the rowing and steering), and the female was in the front, lightly paddling when she chose. My tiny masculine ego crawled from its shell...
Fate and circumstance combine to limit the death toll in what is nevertheless the tenth worst air crash in U.S. history. -- On the diplomatic front: a senior U.S. foreign service officer is suspected of espionage, and George Bush is accused of giving embassy jobs to wealthy but unqualified supporters. -- The Stealth bomber takes to the skies -- but Congress may shoot it down...