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White is "an outstanding young woman," Chief Robert Tonis said yesterday. "She's confident, pleasant, attractive, and she'll lend a nice attitude to the force. We're proud to have...
There are some talented people in the cast: James Coburn, Ian Hendry, Harry Andrews, and Lee Grant trying mightily to lend substance to someone's bad fantasy of a newspaper woman. Virtually the entire movie is taken up with the planning and negotiation of the internecine bloodbath, with a few allowances for subtleties like characterization. There is, however, a rather nice suggestion throughout the film that in the world of applied politics, the real villians-detached, manipulative, powerful-can engineer anything, including a succession of murders, and tally up the results like the box score of adoubleheader...
Savings and loan associations normally lend more than half of the mortgage money that home buyers use to purchase houses, but this year they have had little cash to hand out. From April through September, the S and Ls lost almost $2.8 billion in deposits as savers withdrew their funds to seek higher interest rates elsewhere. Now, though, the Federal Reserve has eased its credit squeeze, interest rates on competing investments are coming down, and in October the S and Ls took in an estimated $650 million of new savings. The inflow will have to continue for several more months...
...just about all it has. The Odessa File has lumbering yearnings to be a kind of fictional semidocumentary. It invokes Simon Wiesenthal, the Nazi hunter, whose name is listed in the credits as an adviser and who even appears, played by an Israeli actor, as a futile attempt to lend the project a little importance, like using the name of a prominent figure on a foundation letterhead...
...saved on weapons be spent at home rather than abroad to help poor nations feed themselves. American Consumer Advocate Esther Peterson already questions the wisdom of providing food for hungry countries when the U.S. cost of living continues to climb. Of course, the oil-possessing nations could give and lend much more, but so far they have shared little of their new wealth with the poor, the weak and the hungry...