Word: owner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Peter Gillette Jr., vice chairman of Minneapolis' Norwest Corp.: "Perhaps the philosophy is an agrarian holdover-the populists against the pinstripers." Small banks in the West have discovered one innovative way to survive: by renting the name and services of Los Angeles-based First Interstate ($41 billion). The owner of 21 banks in eleven Western states, First Interstate is on its way to becoming the McDonald's of banking. In return for paying a franchising fee, local banks are given the right to use the First Interstate name and are provided with a series of big-bank services...
...Pack your things while there is still time... before your apartments and kebab stalls go up in flames." All too often, the threats are carried out. In West Berlin, a group of teen-age German thugs, screaming abuse at foreigners, attacked a Turkish shop last November, roughing up the owner and his family and ransacking the rooms. In Heidelberg, scores of right-wing fanatics assaulted migrant workers and paraded through the city shouting neo-Nazi slogans. Police arrested...
...message, which is illegal, normally does not apply to Europeans. The owner of a sidewalk café on West Berlin's Kurfürstendam excludes Turks because they "lower the tone" of his establishment. Says Brahim Chanchabi, 29, a Tunisian student in Paris: "You see it in people's eyes. It's not so much a look of hatred as of fear. The other day an elderly woman just started yelling at me, saying, 'Go back to your own country...
...skiing in Switzerland with her family when a stranger called from London with the news. The British farmwife, 44, could be a multimillionaire, thanks to a distant relative named Dundas who had bought some stocks three generations ago. As a shareholder in a company that is a part owner of Reuters Ltd., the London-based news agency, Parsons could gain some $4 million. All over Britain, would-be millionaires are racing to lay claim to part of the estimated $1.5 billion that Reuters may be worth if it offers its shares to the public as expected later this year...
...store. A city bus was even decorated in camouflage as a promotional stunt for the National Guard. Meanwhile in Hollywood, stars like Priscilla Barnes of Three's Company are donning camouflage and more exotic military wear. "I've sold flight coveralls to Raquel Welch," reports Jeff Stein, owner of the Camp Beverly Hills store. "She looks terrific in them...