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Like other financial institutions, Minneapolis' Northwestern National Bank had to draw up and mail a pamphlet explaining the new rules, known as Amended Regulation E. to its 120,000 customers. Demurring, the bank argued that it was following the regulations already and that its customers were not interested in the minutiae of Government rules. Brushing aside Northwestern National's objections, the Fed told it to get on with...
...special paragraph that read: "Any customer who receives a disclosure that includes this paragraph, can get $10 simply by writing 'regulation' and the customer's name and address." At a cost of $69,000, the bank in May and June sent out the 4,500-word pamphlet on Regulation E. So far, not one person has collected...
...enterprise-zone concept originated in Britain through an unusual alliance of the left and the right. Peter Hall, former chairman of the socialist Fabian Society, wrote a pamphlet that inspired Sir Geoffrey Howe, the Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer, to urge that it be tried. Despite strong opposition from the Labor Party, the Conservative government in April provided about $70 million for six enterprise districts in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland...
...workers in the Medical Area vote to have District 65 represent them, the University will still contest the United Auto Workers affiliate's appropriateness as a bargaining unit. "It's very important to us that, as an employer, our units are not fragmented," Powers says. Some envision pamphlet wars similar to the one waged by the administration in 1977. In what District 65 termed an attempt to systematically undermine its organizing campaign, the University gave clerical and technical workers a 3-per-cent across-the-board wage boost January...
...GOOD political pamphlet is a work of art; the art has been corrupted in recent years by the willingness of candidates to gloss over even their nearest approaches to real positions in an out-pouring of feel-good-about-America, new-direction-for-the-70s, time-for-a-man-with-character froth...