Word: parented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...notes would be sold not by the bank itself but by its parent holding company, Citicorp, thus neatly getting around federal regulations limiting the interest that banks-but not bank holding companies-can pay to small savers. For a minimum $5,000 initially, a saver could buy notes on which the interest rate would be changed twice a year. Each time it would be set one percentage point above the going rate on Treasury bills, a favorite investment of the rich. Although the interest rate on Treasury bills can go down as well as up, even in an inflationary environment...
...Individual adoption agencies or a state agency could be organized so that both natural parent and adoptee could register their desire to find each other. If neither registers -and they could have countless reasons not to-the search ends there...
...working at them, people tend to sit back and hope for leadership. "Everybody is looking for somebody else to do something for them, to take the responsibility," says Nelson Rockefeller. According to Chicago Psychoanalyst Jules Masserman, "We never get over being children. We're always looking for a parent figure." In a democracy, leadership always requires collaboration between
...profit-minded executive and won the support of the company trustees. In 1969 they elected him publisher of the two newspapers and in 1972 chairman of the parent company...
...policy for his firm's South African operation that includes a black education foundation and executive training. "We may not know for 25 years whether our pathetic and uncertain efforts will have any effect," admits the thoughtful St. Louis-born Wyman, who is widely regarded as heir ap parent to Polaroid Founder Edwin Land. A Phi Beta Kappa English major at Amherst, Wyman worked in the Nestlé Co.'s new products division, where he was concerned with foreign acquisitions, now keeps close watch over Polaroid's fast-growing foreign sales...