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...worthiness of borrowers. Result: a portfolio that included $2.3 billion in bad loans. At some other ailing banks, problems can be traced further down the organizational ladder. Inexperienced traders at Chase Manhattan lost some $285 million in 1982 by lending U.S. Treasury bonds, notes and bills to Drysdale Government Securities, a renegade Wall Street firm that had parlayed $5 million in capital into as much as $4 billion in holdings before it failed. The tiny company had bought securities in expectation that interest rates would go higher. When they did not, Drysdale lost its gamble...
...Crimson had to depend on strong performances from the bottom half of the ladder to defeat a strong Trinity squad that Harvard Coach Priscilla Choate described as having "tremendous depth...
...statewide-and no one yet knows by how many votes Hart whipped Mondale in the Democratic primary. In Texas a voter must vote once on Saturday morning and once more in the evening to have his vote count for local delegates, who will then be mysteriously manipulated up the ladder of layered caucuses for a final choice. One could go on to more outlandish and contradictory rules, laws, regulations. This unworkable system leaves both the parties and the candidates prey to local and hard-bitten pressure groups, from the National Rifle Association to the Sierra Club, from the antiabortion zealots...
...strength lies in warm but unsentimentalized interpretations of an essentially Central European repertoire. His love of contemporary music is already clear in his Cleveland programming: on a U.S. tour last month, he offered a ravishing performance of Arnold Schoenberg's unfinished atonal oratorio, Die Jakobsleiter (Jacob's Ladder), and an impassioned reading of Alban Berg's twelve-tone Violin Concerto, with Soloist Itzhak Perlman. The most recent Severance Hall program featured the late-Romantic composer Hans Pfitzner's Violin Concerto, a work rarely heard outside Germany. Yet Dohnanyi is also strong in more traditional fare, which...
...history at Harvard includes a repid ascent up the ladder--full law professor at 30, Dean of the Law School at 37, and appointment to president on January 11, 1971--all by the time...