Word: isaac
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fine after discovering that the shadow bank took in a whopping $45 million in foreign currency in just six months in 1986 -- six times the amount B.C.C.I.'s Colombia branch reported for the entire year. The branch split apart from B.C.C.I. last week when it was acquired by Isaac Gilinsky, a Colombian food and textile magnate who said he would reorganize the branch and reopen it under the name Banco Andino...
REPORTER-RESEARCHERS: Audrey Ball, David Bjerklie, Val Castronovo, Nancy Newman, Zona Sparks, Susanne Washburn (Senior Staff); Kathleen Brady, Barbara Burke, Wendy Cole, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Mary McC. Fernandez, Janice M. Horowitz, Jeanette Isaac, Sinting Lai, Michael Quinn, Megan Rutherford, David Seideman, Linda Young...
REPORTER-RESEARCHERS: Audrey Ball, David Bjerklie, Val Castronovo, Nancy Newman, Zona Sparks, Susanne Washburn (Senior Staff); Kathleen Brady, Barbara Burke, Wendy Cole, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Mary McC. Fernandez, Janice M. Horowitz, Jeanette Isaac, Sinting Lai, Michael Quinn, Megan Rutherford, David Seideman, Linda Young...
...easy for Isaac Bashevis Singer to believe in miracles. He was proof that they existed. In 1935 the rabbi's son journeyed from Warsaw to New York City to visit his brother, novelist Israel Joshua Singer, and thereby escaped the Holocaust. He described vanished worlds in a dying language to a dwindling audience and was awarded the 1978 Nobel Prize for Literature. He was unknown at 40, but last week, when I.B. Singer died of a stroke at the age of 87, he was the most applauded Polish-born writer since Joseph Conrad...
REPORTER-RESEARCHERS: Audrey Ball, David Bjerklie, Val Castronovo, Nancy Newman, Zona Sparks, Susanne Washburn (Senior Staff); Kathleen Brady, Barbara Burke, Wendy Cole, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Mary McC. Fernandez, Janice M. Horowitz, Jeanette Isaac, Sinting Lai, Michael Quinn, Megan Rutherford, David Seideman, Linda Young