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...fact that his loans-$5.3 million between 1975 and January 1977-were granted for the express purpose of enabling Lance to buy, with two partners, a majority share of the stock in his own bank. Federal law forbids banks to make such loans to their own officers, lest unscrupulous bankers use depositors' money to enrich themselves; but the law is silent about stock-purchase loans to correspondent bankers. Yet if a banker cannot borrow money from his own bank to buy its stock, why should he be allowed to borrow from a correspondent bank for the same purpose...
...Lest we doze through a $75,000 commercial, television addresses us in a chronic forte. One team is best. One man is No. 1. One sport is better than it has ever been before. The salesmanship is skillful, and I am always finding myself persuaded...
...severance for an employee who complained about the terms of his departure. Times Co. vice presidents filed in, and they talked acquisitions, new ventures, pending tax rulings and other financial concerns. After lunch with a local department-store executive in the company dining room (where no liquor is served, lest some guest complain that drink overloosened his tongue), Sulzberger received a delegation of Sarah Lawrence College officials angry at a Times article about lesbianism at the school. Sulzberger promised that he would look into the matter. Except in the summer, when he leaves early, the publisher often wanders through...
...PULL TOGETHER." A woman asks, "Do you remember punching oleo up in a bag to make it look like butter?" Restaurants posted a sign: USE LITTLE SUGAR AND STIR LIKE HELL. WE DON'T MIND THE NOISE. Radio stations did not give weather forecasts, lest they help the enemy launch an attack...
...part did oil companies have in the fomenting of protest against nuclear power?" or "How much like George Orwell's Animal Farm will the 'ideal' state be?" In the end it may just be best not to delve too deeply into Luscomb's beliefs and decide whether we agree lest we fall victim to the same riduculing or harassing frame of mind as those 1920's reactionaries who sought to restrain the needed reforms of society, economics and politics that Luscomb and her ilk fought for, even when they didn't always see their dreams fulfilled in their lifetime...