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...largest function of all these people is to provide a bustling background for Ripley's quieter, more intense development. In the first film she was a smart, self-contained careerist, essentially a reactive character, desperately fighting against something but not for anybody or anything except her own life. The sequel gives her something, someone wonderful to fight...
Today, however, the European Communist Parties are almost all in retreat after suffering disastrous setbacks at the polls. Even the Italian Communist Party, still the world's largest nonruling Communist Party, has watched its membership slide from a high of 2 million in the mid-1970s to 1.65 million. . More telling, Bologna is the only large city that still has a Communist mayor. In 1976 there were five, including Rome and Naples. The chances of a party resurgence seem slim under the current leadership of Alessandro Natta, who is bland and unforceful...
...issue was the Chirac Cabinet's proposed decree calling for the gradual denationalization of 65 large, state-owned companies and banks, including the Elf Aquitaine oil trust, the Banque Nationale de Paris, the country's largest, and the telecommunications giant Compagnie Generale d'Electricite. The privatization plan involves enterprises worth about $40 billion...
...change finally caught up with several companies and produced a chilling succession of financial calamities. The shocks came one right after another, starting on Monday, when the First National Bank & Trust of Oklahoma City (assets: $1.6 billion) collapsed from the weight of bad energy loans. It was the second-largest bank failure in U.S. history (after the 1974 fall of the New York-based Franklin National Bank) and a likely portent of another round of financial trauma in the oil patch. Just two days later, BankAmerica (assets: $117 billion), the No. 2 banking company in the U.S. after Citicorp, announced...
First National of Oklahoma City embarked on a bid to become a regional banking power during the 1970s oil boom. When prices fell, however, the bank's long-shot energy loans began to misfire. The bank slipped in position from the state's No. 1 institution to third-largest and during the past four years lost more than $200 million. Last September federal banking regulators forced the resignation of First National's chairman and largest stockholder, Charles A. Vose Sr., 85, who had led the bank since 1945. But the new chairman, J.G. Cairns Jr., found the institution in disarray...