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...Bank is paying 8.6% on $5,000 deposits and 11.3% on $25,000 accounts, with no fees unless the customer writes more than 30 checks a month. Says Dry Dock Chairman Robert Steele: "We're new to the checking-account business, and we hope to make a major inroad against commercial banks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Big Brawl in Banking | 1/17/1983 | See Source »

...very well, or at least not as well as their backers hoped. Chief among those was The Wiz, the black version of The Wizard of Oz. Just about to go into wide release, the movie will probably make a profit, and it appears to have made a crucial inroad among white audiences. But it will almost certainly not be the blockbuster Universal counted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bottom-Line Time in Hollywood | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

...some use as a handy compendium of Truman's sayings and anecdotes. Miller is a perceptive man and a good interviewer, and he was fortunate in having an extremely responsive subject. He had the chance to produce a unique and significant document and make an important inroad in the relatively new field of oral biography. He shouldn't have stopped short...

Author: By Eric M. Breindel, | Title: Talking with Truman | 4/10/1974 | See Source »

...there's a clash between protesting inroads on the individual and increasing the inroad abortion represents---protecting children more from their patents and saying you can only kill them before they're born," Bok said...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: Boks Talk on Freshman Life, Abortion | 1/10/1973 | See Source »

...faulted. Michael Sarrazin, as Gloria's partner, and Susannah York, as a peroxide blonde, silk-gowned contestant hoping to be discovered by film directors, are relentlessly pathetic in their non-aggressive acceptance of their fate. So are Red Buttons, as a war veteran who hasn't found an inroad back to society in the 14 years since armistice, and Bonnie Bedilia, as a pregnant contestant hoping to win even at the cost of sacrificing her child...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: The Moviegoer They Shoot Horses, Don't They? | 3/3/1970 | See Source »

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