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...time 15 years ago when Olayan's Saudi companies were overextended and Citibank called in $2 million in loans. Says a friend: "Since then he has had a hate-love relationship with banks. He can get very excited when he tells of how they almost pulled the rug out from under...
What had happened? NBC had pulled the rug out from under its competitors by secretly switching the rules for its Election Night victory calls. While ABC and CBS analysts cautiously awaited voting results from their 7,000 sample precincts, NBC executives decided to use their exit polls as a basis for calling many states rather than wait for any real vote counts. NBC'S reasoning: in a landslide, there is no place for punctilio...
...choice but to reverse our first vote," Michael G. Colantuono, '83, a student member of CHUL, said after the meeting, adding "The administration pulled the rug out from under us. We had to accept what they gave us or get nothing...
...housewife pauses while vacuuming the rug. Her drawl is as broad as her smile, as she declares herself "proud" to be from the "Bible Belt." But she is a mite disturbed about all those ministers meddling in politics. "Jesus didn't tell us there was only one Christian way to think politically,"she says. ";If my preacher and I don't tell anybody how to vote, then nobody's going to tell us how to worship. That's the American way, isn't it?" View ers who agree are invited to phone or write...
...letter insufficient. Jackson said minority students "will not tolerate Bok continuing to address the issue as he did in the letter. No matter how sorry he is, the damage is done, and the lives of minorities have been dramatically affected. He can't sweep it under the rug...