Word: matter
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...your basic Top Ten U.S. Cities. In any case, she was from Creighton College, Neb., and she was on her first trip east, to see New York City with friends. She'd been born in Wyoming--down-home, God-fearing Wyoming--and it was only a matter of time before the rural Fundamentalist began discussing religion with me, your basic, run-of-the-mill New York liberal Jewish atheist...
...multinational, filing criminal informations against two high-level ITT executives. On March 20, the government charged senior vice president Edward J. Gerrity and regional public relations manager Robert Berrellez each with six felony counts of perjury, obstruction of government proceedings and making false statements in a government matter. The Justice Department stated that the felony charges stemmed from their false testimony to the Senate subcommittee in 1973. The criminal informations were filed only hours before the five-year statute of limitations on perjury would have lapsed...
...sought to conceal the aid extended by the Kennedy and Johnson administrations to U.S.-based multinationals, which were trying to protect their investments in Latin America and elsewhere. 'Korry added that the Carter administration permitted the Justice Department to continue its ITT investigation in order to cloak the whole matter with the department's "mantle of legitimacy...
Bank officials decided that it cost more to maintain accounts with smaller balances than the bank was earning from using the money. "It is like selling dollar bills at 98 cents. No matter how much you sell you still cannot make any profit," Albert J. Baillargeon, executive vice president of the bank, said yesterday. "We want to be a competitive bank, but do have a responsibility to our stockholders,"he added...
This gets annoying if you are in the least bit conscious of plausibility or consistency with previous action. Why, after practicing Laraine Newman's song "ABC" do the "Chesterfields" sing "Why Do Fools Fall In Love" at the rock and roll show? For that matter, how did the "Chesterfields" get signed up to do the show? There is some intimation that Freed means to do this for them; it is clear he likes them, but the scene in which they are told they will perform is missing...