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...announced that he would sharply curtail the city's borrowing, reduce police, fire and sanitation services, increase teachers' workloads and raise real estate taxes by 10%. The measures are designed to save the city some $135 million in the fiscal year that begins in July, and to impress on local bankers that .Beame is serious about curbing New York's profligacy. The Beame scheme may be working; shortly after His Honor spoke, First National City Bank Chairman Walter Wriston declared that the city was "fortunate" to have a mayor "so well equipped to read the numbers...
...resolved into a joke. Fellini shows us only one side of the dionysiac, and only avoids getting sappy as a Christmas card by making his all-encompassing benevolence bittersweet. The director's old persona as the Hitchcock or Resnais or Welles who set out to terrify or bewilder or impress his audience is replaced by kindly old Father Christmas figures like Fellini and Jean Renoir, who do nothing more than wave their wands over the world and turn evil into good...
...national machine fever, the auto investment boom swerved higher and higher.") Unfortunately, she is not alone in this regard. Nader's reports are notoriously unreadable, and many of today's most valuable contributions to the field of corporate responsibility are disguised in language which can only be intended to impress the reader by confusing him. It is more than annoying that some of the most important ideas of our time must be deciphered and reconstructed, for an idea is only as powerful as its ability to be understood...
...when Franklin National expanded from its home base on Long Island into Manhattan. In the fiercely competitive Manhattan market, established banks had long ago signed up most of the solid corporate customers. Franklin National felt obliged to make many high-risk loans to young companies. Eager to impress, Franklin also saddled itself with some 25% more space than it needed in plush offices on Park Avenue and elsewhere...
...purpose, considering the evidence against him already on record and the fact that there is no higher official that Jaworski could seek to indict. Only a detailed admission of guilt, including his cover-up activities relating to such defendants as Ehrlichman, Haldeman and John Mitchell, would be likely to impress Jaworski. The penalty Nixon would then have to pay presumably would be up to Judge Sirica, although President Ford could of course pardon him after any judicial action...