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...decides it just can't get its group down to target without throwing out some good candidates, it may insist on raising its target. But if an area is going to try to get more applicants in, it must lower the targets elsewhere and this could be a real sorespot when the entire committee meets again...

Author: By Audrey H. Ingber and Mark J. Penn, S | Title: The Admissions Process: Target Figures, Profiles, Political Admits... | 4/24/1975 | See Source »

...since the first stockmarket crash there have been stories of a "trouble-spot'' in Manhattan banking. When remedies from within fail, a sure ointment for financial and industrial troubles is a merger. Long has it been hoped that this treatment would be used to assuage the Manhattan sorespot. Recently just such a merger was rumored. Remarkable feature was that it involved the unique plan of consolidating four banks (TIME, Nov. 10 ). They were: Manufacturers Trust, with resources of $463,000,000, greatly expanded during recent years; Public National Bank, with resources of $246,000,000, a bank which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Billion-Dollar Bank | 12/8/1930 | See Source »

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