Word: marylander
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...values of the workplace. Explains Kitty La Perriere of New York, president of the American Family Therapy Association: "What matters is production, output, competition, excellence." Since men are still the principal wage earners in most families, the women usually take second billing. Arnold Medvene, a University of Maryland psychologist, recalls a woman whose writing career was becoming increasingly successful. But her husband, a high-ranking civilian employee of the Navy, put little value on her work. Their children and the household tasks remained her burden. Says Medvene: "She got the message. She felt belittled and demeaned." Only after the couple...
...Baltimore on the U.S. barge Lash Atlantico on its way to Teledyne Continental Motors in Muskegon, Mich., for repairs and rebuilding. The driver parked the T-54 for more than a week while he went off in search of a special permit to transport the overweight load on Maryland's roads. In the end, police returned the guns, and the tank continued its decades-long voyage from Moscow to Muskegon...
...neighborhood banks across the U.S., an invasion of financial giants is at hand. Big-city institutions are breaking through the legal barriers that once confined them to their home states. New York's Citicorp, the most aggressive of them all, gained important ground last week by persuading the Maryland legislature to allow the bank to set up branches in the state. The new law gives the same privilege to any out-of-state bank that promises to invest at least $25 million in Maryland and create a minimum of 1,000 jobs. In Citicorp's case, the bank plans...
...Most Maryland bankers strongly opposed the legislation because Citicorp (assets: $151 billion) is more than seven times as big as all of Maryland's 89 banks combined. But Governor Harry Hughes promoted the move as an economic stimulant, a tactic that Citicorp hopes will appeal to other states...
Somewhat surprisingly, that idea has stirred little protest in Washington. Tennessee Senator Jim Sasser calls the maneuvers "scary," and his fellow Democrat, Maryland Congressman Michael Barnes, terms them "inconsistent" with President Reagan's efforts to promote peace negotiations between the Sandinistas and the contras. For the most part, however, even persistent critics of Reagan's Central American policy are undisturbed. Says Larry Birns, the avowedly liberal director of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs: "This is gunboat diplomacy upgraded, but a bit of pressure doesn't hurt...