Word: portioning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BANKING. The phasing out of Government-mandated interest-rate ceilings has turned banking from a clubby business into a boisterous free-for-all. Institutions that once paid only 5% for their deposits now need to offer rates of 8% or more on a large portion of their savings accounts. That is one reason why 45 banks-a post-Depression record-have failed this year. Hit hardest in the turmoil are savings banks and savings and loan associations. The number of these thrift institutions has dwindled from about 4,500 to 3,600 since 1980. The strongest survivors, like Buffalo-based...
Acting on a recommendation from City Manager Robert W. Healy, the nine-member body set the rate for business higher than that for personal property, thereby putting a larger portion of the tax burden on the commercial community...
...late October, Kvitsinsky was dining at Nitze's Geneva apartment along with Norman Clyne, a close aide to Nitze, and his wife Alice. Just as the gateau d 'orange dessert was about to be served, Mrs. Clyne jokingly told Kvitsinsky that he would not get his portion unless he revealed when the long-threatened walkout would take place. Kvitsinsky said he did not want to forgo dessert, and announced that the negotiations would end between Nov. 15 and 22. He missed his deadline by only...
Cranston also devoted a large portion of his speech to criticism of Reagan's foreign policy...
...cable control issue has been a major focus of the convention in addition to being a major component of the League's Washington lobbying effort, said Arndt. He added that the organization spends a considerable portion of its $4 million budget on such lobbying efforts...