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...largest bank, and its 299,812 customers are served by 104 branches. Although generally regarded as conservative, the bank has moved into Central and South America, actively pushes loans to Mexico's impoverished farmers-a field that Mexico's 114 other commercial banks are usually reluctant to plow. "Agriculture credit is a good operation if you study the farmer," says Managing Director Fernando Gonzalez. He insists that his bankers not only advise farmers what to grow, but also what seed and fertilizer to use. Director Gonzalez is known affectionately in banking circles as "un viejo lobo banquero...
behind the plow...
Ingenious Solutions. Commonest solution is the annual parking fee, ranging up to $75. Other ingenious methods are being tried. To plow tax money into parking, Berkeley is building big garages roofed with tennis courts and athletic fields. To solve the land shortage (new buildings are eating up old parking lots), the University of Washington is integrating kids and cars in combined garage-dormitories. But Fordham University failed when it tried to call in the commercial Kinney System Inc. to run a $225,000 parking operation -price-protesting students chanted "Let the lot rot!" And just having rich alumni, as Harvard...
Adjusting Prices. Business in Brazil has been turned into a dangerous and complicated gamble by runaway inflation, which has been accelerated by reckless government spending, constant labor demands for more money, and restrictive laws that force foreign companies to plow back their profits into the Brazilian economy. Between the time a businessman bids for an order and delivers the goods, he does not know how much the cost of the materials will rise, how high the workers' wages will climb, how much his financing charges will increase, or even if his customer will be able...
...forbidding Virgin Lands of Central Asia, where Khrushchev set out in 1954 to create a vast new granary, erosion now threatens to turn millions of acres into a dust bowl; most of the new croplands last year failed even to return their seed grain. His hasty campaign to plow under fallow grasslands has impaired huge areas of once-fertile soil since 1958. Khrushchev's evangelical efforts in 1961 to promote mass sowing of corn did more harm than good, as he himself admitted at the meeting...