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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...haven't taken American History in a while, Glass-Steagall was a law made after the Depression that mandated the separation of commercial, investment and insurance banking. In short, it meant that Joe Public had to go to three separate places to get a loan, invest in the stock market and buy insurance, rather than do all of his banking under the same roof. Visiting three different financial institutions is not an inconvenience to your run-of-the-mill investor. The vast majority of people use banks for modest loans, mortgages and various kinds of insurance. They don't need...

Author: By Christina S. Lewis, | Title: Rising Tide Sinks Small Ships | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

...like Andrea Parker does, I believe we can work something out. In any case, you really have no choise but to work something out with someone as brazen as Parker. Unfazed by the mob-wide surge for skippy techno, she announced her hatred of Fatboy Slim to the media (market self-sabotage--how will the masses relate?). Just as untimid in her work, she had Depeche Mode, Lamb, the Orb, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Steve Reich come under remixing at her hands before she began work on Kiss My Arp, her full-length debut. A session vocalist and classically trained cellist...

Author: By Phua MEI Pin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Album Review: Andrea Parker | 11/12/1999 | See Source »

Boston often struggles to shed its image of musty, small-town conservatism and to establish itself as a forerunner in the production and exhibition of cutting-edge contemporary work. With regard to the local art market, Katie Block of Miller Block Gallery at 14 Newbury St. laments that the work of a contemporary art gallery director in Boston is much harder than it is elsewhere, professing that Boston art collectors tend toward the traditional side, with a predilection for the strictly representational and less openness toward abstract and conceptual...

Author: By Jeni Tu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Contemporary On Newbury | 11/12/1999 | See Source »

...them mad or you just might find some unpleasant surprises in your next baked Idaho. After a run of bad press, biotech companies are taking the offensive to save face, not to mention profits, in a potentially explosive market. Friday's New York Times reports a surge of public relations maneuverings from a number of biotech giants, including Monsanto, Norvartiscoei and DuPont, to put a friendlier face on their modified- food crops here in the U.S. Opponents charge that by changing the makeup of foods to increase productivity or enhance favorable characteristics, the companies are forcing "Frankenstein" crops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monsanto Says Potato, Nervous Public Says Mutant Tuber | 11/12/1999 | See Source »

Fears like this can translate directly into poor market performance. Disastrous sales in the European market may have scared some sense into the biotech companies, but their new p.r. campaigns may be a few bushels shy of a load. "It could be too late for them in Europe," Kluger says. "Now, these companies are just trying to save the game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monsanto Says Potato, Nervous Public Says Mutant Tuber | 11/12/1999 | See Source »

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