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Lamberg-Karlovsky's excavation is just one of a number of research sites in the Soviet Union that appear to indicate the existence of an ancient civilization equal in complexity to those found in the Indus Valley, Mesopotamia, Egypt and China--considered the four centers of Bronze Age culture...
...suspect that given the evidence of this urban Bronze Age that we know already to have some connections with the Indus Vally civilization and Mesopotamia, it is not unreasonable to think that it may have had a linkage further to the east in China," says Lamberg-Karlovsky...
Last week Cleveland's National City ($6.6 billion) announced plans to merge with Columbus' BancOhio ($6 billion). Indus try Analyst James Wooden of Merrill Lynch estimates that by 1995 the U.S. will have only 25 to 35 national banking organizations. Citicorp, BankAmerica and the other leading financial-center banks remain relentless in their determination to knock down the remaining roadblocks to expansion across state lines. The financial giants sometimes lose a round or two, but they always fight back...
Pension experts estimate that U.S. corporations currently have $100 billion more in their retirement funds than is necessary to meet expected obligations. By creating new rivalries in a once complacent indus try, the independent pension-fund man agers have made it easier for companies to ensure the financial futures of their workers...
...than 38 times. Getting the eight-story-high, 2,300-ton excavator and its 1 million spare parts to Sudan, the largest nation in Africa and independent since 1956, was a challenging task. The machine had been in Pakistan, where it was used to dig a passage between the Indus and Jhelum rivers; it had to be broken down into 742 components for transport by ship, rail and barge...