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...ONLY PROBLEM by Muriel Spark; Putnam; 179 pages...
...Some schools just won't have discriminatory practices scrutinized," Muriel M. Spence, legal counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union, said...
...Institution economist, estimates that the 4,000 U.S. thrifts will lose $9 billion between 1981 and 1983, cutting their collective net worth in half, because they are paying high interest rates to attract deposits but collecting low interest on many old mortgage loans. Says New York State Bank Superintendent Muriel Siebert: "I can see 600 to 700 thrifts going down the drain this year, and maybe another 1,100 in 1983." The prospect appears to be causing some people to worry about the safety of their savings for the first time since the 1930s, even though deposits in thrift institutions...
...condition of thrifts is perhaps worst in New York City. Federal officials are now trying to find a merger mate for the venerable (founded 1819) New York Bank for Savings, which has assets of $3.6 billion. At least eight other New York institutions are also in trouble. Says Muriel Siebert, the state's superintendent of banking: "The problems are extremely serious. These are institutions that survived the Civil War and the Great Depression and never missed an interest payment. This is air unprecedented phenomenon...
...packs watching Monday Night Football. Their aloof singularity lies at the heart of human fascination with the animal. The cat's wild ways endure and charm. In Japan the cat is called "the tiger that eats from the hand." In her authoritative compendium The Cat, Author Muriel Beadle postulates that the feline's alliance with humans is a dramatic biological decision to swap solitary life in the wild for "the company...