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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such tales have not been limited to small firms. Chemical Bank, which lost $6 million in post-Volckerism bond dealing, abruptly fired its trading manager. A billion-dollar sure thing- the issuing of IBM bonds last month- turned into a pumpkin for such blue-ribbon investment bankers as Salomon Bros...
Though Remarque came to the plot early, his scenario is now familiar from too many other war movies: a group of boys go from school to training camp to the front lines, becoming men only to die. "You are our iron youth," their high school instructor (Donald Pleasence) tells them...
As the meeting ended, the Vatican issued a public financial communique, its first ever, revealing a 1979 budget deficit of around $20 million. The gap has been met by "Peter's pence," the aid offering from churches around the world, and other gifts. But the 1980 deficit will be...
His habits even left him free to perform a good deed; he married Thomas Mann's daughter Erika in order to get her out of Nazi Germany and safely under the protection of British citizenship. Auden later enlisted E.M. Forster in a campaign to persuade other homosexuals to perform...
"The novelists never told us that in love, as in other matters, the young are just beginners and that the art of loving matures with age and experience." Singer is not referring to the warmth of the family or the affection of the blessed for those less fortunate. He is...