Word: funnels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...parent of the giant bank Morgan Guaranty Trust, the right to underwrite stocks through a separate subsidiary. The decision marked the widest breach yet in the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act, which has barred banking firms from buying and selling stock. On Wall Street securities firms charged that bankers might funnel federally insured deposits into risky stock deals. But regulations bar bank holding companies from shifting funds from a bank to a securities subsidiary...
...whole, society benefits from a general awareness of the dangers of smoking. But this awareness often boils over into unjustified fury at friends lighting up the old cancer sticks. And just why is there no similar fury against the guy sucking down 16 ounces of beer through a funnel and a rubber hose...
Fitzwater said yesterday that although the United States is willing to provide technical assistance to the Soviet Union, it will resist attempts by the other industrialized nations to funnel funds to the troubled nation...
With frequent allusions to the 1947 Harvard Commencement Speech given by Secretary of State George C. Marshall, in which Marshall announced his plan to funnel massive financial aid to rebuild war-torn Europe, Kohl said the United States should remain a "European power" in the coming decades...
Dienstbier proposed that Western nations funnel $16 billion in economic aid to the Soviet Union. Over a ten-year period, Dienstbier said, that proposal would promote Eastern European modernization and trade...