Word: soundness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...facility [a banking term for a loan] will be maintained in a National Bank of Georgia account and we anticipate in addition having all the New York activity for the bank flow through this account, yielding balances up to $1 million on a monthly average." That made it sound as if Lance had promised to open a correspondent-bank relationship as a trade-off for getting the New York bank loan...
...attacking the basic problem of job creation, the first sound step is to recognize that the Government cannot and should not try to do it all. Given the public's dismay with inflation and high taxes, there is nothing close to the political consensus that would be needed to support liberal cries for massive job programs or a "Marshall Plan for the cities." Despite some successes, Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty is too well remembered as one in which benefits often trickled up to the so-called poverticians?the programmers, social workers and suppliers to the needy. Any massive...
...years of gigs with Husband Ike, Tina Turner is divorced and gyrating alone. The "Acid Queen" has added some soft ballads to her repertory and toned down her husky voice. "The ears get a chance to rest a little bit," says Tina, 37. When she tried out her new sound in Las Vegas, her backup group, the Ikettes, was gone but her ex, Ike, was right there -in the audience. "We're friends really. There's no war," says Tina. Their 1976 divorce, she feels, was good for her. Explains Tina: "Before, Ike was always there to sort...
Guess Who? First there was a secretary to answer the phone. Then there were telephone-answering machines for office and home. Now there are taped messages featuring what sound like the voices of Richard Nixon, John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, Marlon Brando, Peter Loire and some 25 other celebrities. "I've temporarily stepped out of the office-you are being taped on a machine guaranteed not to erase," says the voice mimicking Nixon. "Listen, could you make an 18-minute message so I could get those (bleep) off my (bleep)?" Then the voice fades, saying, "I will be back...
...tired of hearing the same boring messages on the phone machines of his friends and business associates. So far, Helios are available only in California and Baltimore, but $300,000 worth of them have been sold since January. The cassettes ($9.95 each) appeal to people who either dislike the sound of their voice on tape or are too shy to face a microphone. The company, Communico, plans to add a new series of messages with the voice-alikes of Columbo, Edith and Archie Bunker and Jimmy Carter. Hello...