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Under its aggressive and hard-charging chairman, William P. ("Wild Bill") Jennings, the bank had cultivated an image as a canny deal spotter in the risky business of financing energy drilling and exploration projects. The lending was made possible by a common practice called overlining. Under federal regulations, a bank...
From a low of fractionally less than $1 per gal. for unleaded regular on some markets, gasoline prices have started to firm up. According to Daniel Lundberg, publisher of the Lundberg Letter, a gasoline marketing weekly, the average nationwide price of fuel at the pump has nudged up by close...
Basically, the author handles the elements of warfare as a physician would examine parts of the human body, without prudery or shame. The result could be one of the publishing sleepers of the season. For while most people do not like to openly discuss the facts of war, they are...
Probing deeper into the ways of the government itself, Fromson illustrates how allegedly cooperative bodies strive to screw one another rather than serve the people. On the Hill, congressional committees sabotage hearings sponsored by other panels in a tragicomic battle for jurisdictional preeminence. Over in the executive branch, Smithers at...
At first, these unorthodox interpretations of revenge seem less personal than traditional-an attitude inherited from an agrarian people accustomed to gentleness and passivity. To be sure, there was a long time, between the 9th and 15th centuries, when Khmer culture sustained a golden age-the period of Angkor Wat...