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After 20 months of testing, O'Grady learned last month that his prospecting permit was insufficient. To exploit the beach, he needs permission from several agencies, including the National Park Service, which controls the beach as part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. They are unlikely to allow O'Grady to mine a national park...
...main forces generating the mergers is the breakdown of barriers to interstate banking. Today, 36 states and the District of Columbia permit out-of-state financial institutions to buy a local bank, at least under some conditions, up from four states just four years ago. Texas put out the welcome mat last September. Its legislators hope that out-of-state institutions will have the resources to help Texas banks overcome the depression in the region's oil and real estate industries...
...days before Williams' death, Detroit Mayor Coleman Young reluctantly signed a gun ordinance that imposes a minimum 30-day jail sentence for a first offense of carrying a concealed firearm without a permit. Young, who has beefed up Detroit's police force over the past 18 months and helped organize community action against crime, described the ordinance as "little more than a fig leaf covering . . . a very complex and very serious problem...
...would rather get the person who is selling stolen permits than the person who is buying the permit," said Mary Monago, Resident Parking Supervisor at Cambridge City Hall...
Normally issued only to legal Cambridge residents, the three-dollar permits have been selling for $40 to $75 on the black market to commuting businessmen, Monago said. "Three parking tickets cost $45. An illegal permit pays for itself in three days," said Monago...