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...under management for institu-tional, retail and private clients; investment hubs in London and Frankfurt...
ENIAC was decommissioned in 1955, having churned out military and scientific calculations for nearly a decade. Today its cabinet-size modules are scattered among several museums and institu tions. Four remain at the Moore School, gathering dust and cobwebs in a foyer off the old building's main hallway. Nearby, someone has hung a contemporary computer chip and a sign that says it all: "In less than 40 years, advances in microelectronics technology have enabled the digital computer with performance far superior to the ENIAC to be placed on a onequarter-inch piece of silicon...
...services. Both to head off First Chicago and to open the door to banks like New York-based Chemical, Continental attorneys last week were helping to draft legis lation that would permit a takeover by an out-of-state U.S. bank. Current Illinois law limits potential buyers to institu tions based in the state or in a foreign country...
...also means bringing con certed pressure on pro-Western members of OPEC, to recycle more of their petrodollars and petro-yen through the multilateral institu tions. Venezuela, a founding member of OPEC, has been assist ing the poorer nations of the Car ibbean basin, and Saudi Arabia spends about 3% of its G.N.P. on aid programs for such relatively poor Islamic states as Pakistan, Syria and Jordan. But Saudi Ara bia's vast wealth represents a global problem and not just a re gional one, since it has accumulat ed that wealth partly at the ex pense...
...Argentina of its patrimony. To clean up the country, Rauch proposed a firmer military control-in other words, more military officers in the Cabinet-and suggested a ten-point program of decrees (from a light watch on the estates of public officials to stricter controls on business and financial institu tions), partial news censorship, and emergency measures to prosecute grafters and wrongdoers...