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...sorrow that bank mergers like last week's $10 billion union of Chemical Banking Corp. and Chase Manhattan can enrich investors but hurt depositors. Hamilton fled his own bank in Washington last year after the giant First Union Corp. of Charlotte, North Carolina, acquired it and raised the minimum balance for no-fee checking from $250 to $500. "We couldn't meet that every month," says Hamilton, president of a nonprofit community-development group, who shifted his money to his wife's credit union. Unlike most consumers, Hamilton isn't watching the trend passively. His organization, Community First...
Although Dan Quayle isn't known for inspiring confidence, a mutual fund has invited him onto its board of advisers. His job is to make nice with investors (minimum investment: $1 million) at annual gatherings. For fussy fund seekers, John Sununu is also on board...
...will make the same adjustment, favoring artistry over perkiness. The teams from Romania and the former Soviet republics, which have posed America's stiffest challenges, are also expected to field older competitors in '96. Come 1997, they will have little choice: in that year international rules will raise the minimum age of competitors from 15 to 16, a direct result of the '92 spectacle...
...Americanisms such as "le weekend," has now been upstaged by Russia. In the southern city of Belgorod, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported today, authorities have imposed a tax on foreign letters used in advertisements and company names. Writing with non-Russian letters will cost owners 500 times the minimum monthly salary -- about...
...agreement, which will expire June 30, 1998, provides for `structural' salary increases of 1.3 percent, 1.8 percent and 1.3 percent in the next three years, in addition to `progression' increases, which deliver minimum increases of three percent of the salary grade to employees with more than a year of service, according to the statement...