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...realm of finance, 1983 may be remembered as the year that competition rumbled through the banking industry and rattled its foundations. To be sure, bankers have long vied with one another to offer customers the shiniest toasters or softest Teddy bears, but they have not had to compete where it counts: in the interest they pay for their basic savings and checking deposits. That situation is now changing. In a move to ease restrictions that had been in force since the Great Depression, federal regulators last month freed banks and savings and loan associations to pay whatever interest they wish...
...paper, conditions seemed tailor-made for a resounding Democratic victory. Illinois is economically depressed. Plants have shuttered or hightailed it out of the state in record numbers. Stevenson, the thoughtful eldest son of the state's two-time Democratic presidential nominee, has the shiniest Democratic name around. How could he lose...
...visitor. South Florida still looks like the Sunbelt's shiniest jewel. New hotels and office towers are rising in Miami, and once sleepy towns near by are growing skylines of their own. The Rolls-Royces still roll royally along Palm Beach's Worth Avenue, and Fort Lauderdale is, as ever, where boy meets girl every aster vacation...
...that calls for astute judgment and courageous imagination. This Caldwell has provided, with astonishingly flexible sets (by Helen Pond and Herbert Senn) and bold lighting effects (by Gilbert Hemsley) that the Aztec sun gods might have admired. On the musical side, Boston's impresario/director/ conductor has assembled the shiniest of casts, notably Tenor Richard Lewis as Montezuma and Soprano Phyllis Bryn-Julson as Malinche, the princess turned slave...
...Chairman Joseph Chamberlain Wilson introduced one of history's most profitable single products-the Xerox 914 office copier-the company's sales have increased 18-fold (to last year's $701 million), its profits have grown 37 times (to $97 million), and its stock, long the shiniest of the glamour issues, has increased in value 50 times to the latest close...