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Looking for a bank that opens early and closes late, lends money on generous terms, gives free checks to small depositors? If you cannot find what you want at an American bank, you might try a branch of a foreign bank. Attracted by the lush profit prospects of the world's biggest banking market-and by a paradoxical freedom from the federal regulations that restrict American-owned banks-British, Japanese, German, Irish, Israeli, Brazilian and other foreign banks are rushing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Chasing the U.S. Dollar | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

There is no surer or happier sign of spring and the surge of new life. In the lush bluegrass pastures of Kentucky, new foals test their spindly legs behind those famous white rail fences. In another annual rite, the great stables breed Thoroughbred stallions and mares imported from around the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Blighted Spring in the Bluegrass | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

...time he turned 18, he was on the road with Grease and keeping an eye on the lively, lush-figured Marilu, who was bouncing around beside him onstage. "Johnny's spontaneous, but he's not impulsive," Marilu maintains, a fact well borne out by their romantic scenario. Johnny made it through most of the tour before he and Marilu became, as she says, "involved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Steppin' to stardom | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

...very good, and that is a triumph as well as a vindication for Acoustician Christopher Jaffe, 50. The problem with a circular design is that sound diffuses quickly, bounces around, losing clarity and focus. Jaffe, with the Boettcher architects, Hardy, Holzman, Pfeiffer Associates, has managed to create a lush, integral sound by using such devices as 106 acrylic "reflector" discs suspended from the ceiling and a huge vault below the stage. There are some minor, doubtless correctable difficulties. The bass is not quite rich enough. When Van Cliburn sat down on opening night to slam his way through his trademark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Rocky Mountain High | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

...taxmen also keep a close eye on press reports of people who have been promoted to high-paying jobs, won lotteries or otherwise struck it rich. A lush lode for the tax examiners was provided, for example, by a Washington, B.C., newspaper feature on Virginia's new coal millionaires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Avoiding Those Nasty Tax Audits | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

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