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...federal laws and regulations. For example, the law generally restricts interstate branching by banks. But nonbank competitors, such as GM and Ford, can offer loans anywhere they please. Says Donald Senterfitt, president of the American Bankers Association: "We are living in a financial-services world that is half slave and half free, and the banks are the slaves." His solution: speed up banking deregulation...
...flourished during the 1960s. It was a time of adolescent hope, particularly for people entering their 30s and 40s. She writes, "Your father, think of it, Bayard, was rebuilding slums. There was to be warmth and light, Shakespeare and the beat of African drums . . . Your mother wrapped in a slave's headcloth above a bastard dashiki. French champagne with grits. See the good of it before you laugh...
...program has already drawn criticism from labor leaders. Says William McGowan, president of the New York State Civil Service Employees Association: "Rather than hiring appropriate personnel under their own civil service system, the state is employing convicted criminals at slave-labor prices." But state officials say the use of inmates to answer phones frees employees to serve the thousands of people who line up in the agency's offices each day to get driver's licenses and car registrations. Says DMV Commissioner Patricia Adduci: "The challenge in government today is to provide quality service at a minimal cost." The agency...
...really wonderful to be working with the composers. That way the dance isn't a slave to the music," says Kripke...
Though I do not for one minute place Cardinal Law and Pope John Paul II in the same league as colonial slave traders and Nazis, I do ask religious leaders to take a few tips from history and not to replay the mistakes of the past...