Word: nongovernmental
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Behind the sedate granite facades and oak-paneled boardroom doors of Wall Street, a bitter power struggle is under way that could well decide the fate of the $2.7 trillion U.S. banking industry. The battle pits behemoth against behemoth, commercial banks against investment-banking houses, prestigious names like Citicorp, Bankers...
The Japanese sun is also rising over the U.S. construction industry. Kumagai Gumi, a major Japanese construction firm, started $700 million in Hawaiian projects last year, an enormous sum in a state where all nongovernment construction for 1985 totaled $862 million. Nikko Hotels International is building a 425-room luxury...
Other nations continued to seek protection from possible nuclear fallout. After arduous debate, the twelve member nations of the European Community agreed to ban all meat and farm products from East European countries affected by the fallout from Chernobyl. The boycott will remain in effect at least through May. The...
Soviet officials were reluctant to seek much outside assistance while still trying to pretend that not much had happened. Tuesday morning at 8:10, a scientific liaison officer from the Soviet embassy in Bonn appeared, unannounced and without an appointment, at the office of the Atomforum, a nongovernment agency that...
Despite the Sandinistas' promise to permit political pluralism, Nicaragua's opposition parties have found it difficult to communicate their messages to the public. Last month, for example, six parties issued a document proposing a cease-fire, an end to the state of emergency and a new schedule for elections. The...