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...largest metropolitan areas have not grown in the 1970s, and others have actually declined, notably the metropolitan areas of Cleveland, Savannah, Seattle, St. Louis and Pittsburgh. Rural counties that were losing population in the 1960s show the biggest gains. "The more remote kinds of places," says Morrison, "those that used to be regarded as 'nowhere,' have be come 'somewhere' in the minds of many migrants...
Abboud now has the opportunity to apply such wisdom on a grand scale. Last week, after a superachieving career in U.S. banking, Abboud, 46, took over as chairman and chief executive of First Chicago Corp., parent of the First National Bank of Chicago, the nation's ninth largest bank (assets: $18.2 billion). If confronted today by a borrower in the same situation as his father, Abboud would make the loan that the Boston banker turned down. Abboud feels that banks have forgotten character and loaned money to "too many high rollers...
...said Phillips, he met and became friends with Sultan Said bin Taimur, who informed him, "By the will of God we shall have oil, for I am grant ing you the oil concession for Dhofar" -an area the size of Ohio. Phillips went on to become one of the largest individual holders of Middle Eastern oil concessions...
Hoping to pick up advertisers who would no longer be able to afford TIME Canada, the editors of Maclean's, the nation's largest monthly (circ. 900,000 in English-and French-language editions), acted two months ago to capitalize on the situation. They transformed their English-language edition into a biweekly newsmagazine. The new Maclean 's has a circulation of about 750,000 (v. TIME Canada...
Harvard got off to a quick start in the contest and rushed to a 10-4 lead, but that was the largest margin they would be able to muster until the last minute of the game...