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More Interest. The net result, say backers of the legislation, would be sharper competition among banks and thrift institutions. That would bring consumers better and cheaper financial services and offer small savers more interest on their money. The housing industry and would-be home buyers would be less vulnerable to recurrent squeezes on credit, because mutual savings banks and S and Ls, the prime sources of mortgage loans, would be better able to compete for savings during tight-money periods. And tighter regulation of banks could help ensure the continued soundness of the whole U.S. financial system...
...there's a surplus of oil, then why hasn't the price of gasoline gone down?" Mobil's complaint was, in part, that the price has gone down in recent months by about 20 a gallon. But other Mobil points about inaccurate or loaded reporting were sharper. Among them...
...shortcomings of Pajaczkowski's Faustus are thrown into sharper relief by the masterful performance of Greg Landis as Mephistophilis. The embodiment of controlled torment, Landis remains sympathetic even while hissing damnation. When the memory of his own loss of grace moves him to warn Faustus of the devil's snares, Landis projects a dignity never fully attained by his victim...
...sharper clash may come on a more comprehensive bill being pushed by two Democrats, Senator Hubert Humphrey and Congressman Augustus Hawkins of California. It would set "full employment" as a national goal to be met within perhaps three years; 3% would be the target unemployment rate. The President would have to submit plans to provide every American "able and willing to work" with a job, using a "standby job corps" to hire those unable to find employment. The independent Federal Reserve Board would be required to tailor its monetary policies to meet the employment target-a step toward a planned...
Pasolini's attitude toward religion, for example, brought the problem modern Italians confront into a sharper focus. Pasolini was an atheist, and had no sympathy for the political machinations of the Church. But his racial consciousness was Roman Catholic; he took his symbols and modes of thought from Christian myth. In his prose he used Biblical forms such as the parable, and frequently quoted Christ. He preserved an Old Testament belief that the body was foul and that women were evil. (In his Hell, the demons are women.) Pasolini wanted to be a Christ-figure, to have everyone hate...