Word: nia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite its bitter opposition to the Fidelity takeover, Bank-America maintained last week that it was "too early to tell" what kind of impact the merger would have on the Califor nia banking market. "We're not trembling with trepidation because Citicorp is coming to California," said Spokesman Ronald Owens. "We're ready to take on all entrants to this market. It just means the competition is going to get a little heavier." Bank-America, which must still receive the approval of the Federal Reserve Board for its own bold move out of traditional banking, the purchase...
...ALTERNATIVE to pro-corporate reindustrialization. Lekachman argues, the left must mobilize around a plan for democratic control of investment decision. A National Investment Authority (NIA) he suggests, could withold subsidies from defense contractors who refuse to convert to civilian production. An and NIA would subsidize local co-ops, church-sponsored housing, and small farmers rather than lumbering auto makers. Lekachman calls for closing tax loopholes--which channel resources into unproductive uses--and redirecting the proceeds to pay for the NIA and for expanded social welfare services. Inflation should be fought not by wage concessions but by controls on oligopolistic price...
...civil ceremony. Her first marriage, to a man named Frank Kallas, initially seemed to be no problem; she said Kallas was dead. But then, only two days after the wedding to Carey, he turned up again, alive and just about to open a restaurant in Califor nia. Mrs. Carey contends her Kallas marriage was invalid in any case because he was married to someone else at the time...