Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Francisco, where Sumitomo, Mitsubishi, Mitsui Manufacturers and Bank of Tokyo Trust have offices, seems to be almost an extension of the Tokyo financial district. Moreover, the invaders are swallowing their competitors. San Francisco's Golden State Sanwa Bank will soon buy the California subsidiary of Britain's Lloyd's Bank for $263 million. When that happens, the Japanese will control four of the ten biggest banks in California...
...cigarette companies emphasize two major themes in getting women to smoke: One is trying to associate smoking with being liberated and the other is more subliminal, but not very subtle, and that is that women should smoke to stay thin," social psychologist Lloyd D. Johnston said...
Against South African Christo Steyn in the anticlimax of Lloyd's 14 Wimbledons, he could summon no joy even while taking the first two sets. "Christo was awful the first two. The final three, I was horrendous. He didn't have that much to beat, really. If I'd actually wanted it and enjoyed it--if it came from within--I would have won. But there was no charge in me. I've been doing this since I was eight, thinking of the next tennis match." One of the gentler fish wrappers inquired about his overpowering emotion. Lloyd said...
Connors and Evert Lloyd, fiances of the early '70s, proved their fealty to winning and Wimbledon at the same time, back when his mother helped cool the romance with that chilling line, "Nobody wins Wimbledon on their honeymoon." Of his 3-6, 6-3, 6-7, 6-7 loss to Seguso, 23, Connors said, "I played all right. He was kind of unconscious, serving bomb after bomb. If he'd faltered an inch, I'd have been all over him." Mentioning archly how Seguso must "play up to his responsibility" now, Connors questioned whether the pretender could do it again...
...month to Prague to compete in the Federation Cup, the women's Davis equivalent. Pressed to offer advice and counsel, since he has been in Czechoslovakia far more recently, Lendl considered the matter solemnly before responding "I would tell her to stay away from the dumplings." Navratilova and Evert Lloyd made their usual voracious work of the dumplings last week, though Dominican-born Mary Joe Fernandez, the latest model in a Florida baseliner, made a bright 6-4, 6-1 impression on the prototype. "It's been a while," smiled Chris, "since I played a 14-year-old." Pam Shriver...