Word: rale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vault door of the elegant main branch bank of the Société Générale in Nice had been a problem for months. So bank officials were not unduly concerned early last Monday when its 50-year-old mechanism seemed stuck again. Then, after hours of unsuccessful tinkering, they decided to break through the vault wall-and made a discovery that caused consternation on yachts and in villas up and down France's fabled Côte d'Azur...
...system. To save on wages, he had even sent the night watchman home on weekends. Guenet's wealthy depositors were displeased, to put it mildly. On the day following the discovery, angry crowds clogged the streets in front of the Société Générale...
Apart from meeting the Soviet challenge in Europe and elsewhere, Schlesinger must contend with the mo rale problems left over from Viet Nam, the nation's longest and most unpopular war. Some top-ranking officers are still bitter that the politicians interfered with their conduct of the war. Their resentment contributes to a crisis of the military spirit that infects all ranks and may well be more difficult to handle than the manifold problems of race, drugs and discipline...
...Banque Franco-Arabe d'lnvestissements Internationaux (or FRAB), started in Paris in 1969 by the Kuwait Investment Co. in partnership with the French Société Générale and the Société de Banque Suisse. It has $180 million in assets, and its vice president is Abdel Aziz El Sagar, former speaker of Kuwait's Parliament...