Word: staid
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Transforming the Clerks. "We have been trying to broaden our business," says Managing Director Erich Vierhub, 66, "and now we are harvesting the first successes." One of Vierhub's main aims is to "transform staid bank clerks into money salesmen"-a formula that works at home as well as abroad. One of the Dresdner's mutual funds, Concentra, has grown into the country's second largest (assets: $226 million). From its coequal headquarters in the cities of Frankfurt, Dusseldorf and Hamburg, the bank has opened 650 branches across West Germany, adds new ones at the rate...
...economy was stabilized. During the first two months of this year, production was up about 5.5%. In March, crude-steel output hit an alltime high of 3.6 million tons. Domestic auto sales have been slower to recover, but carmakers predict an increase of 12% this year. Even the staid Deutsche Bank has been inviting Germans to loosen their purse strings. "You can go out and buy those things you put off last year," the bank said last week in a newspaper advertisement. "Perhaps a new car, in order to enjoy the nice season and the economic bloom...
Once the maelstrom began to swirl along the streets, the burgeoning sense of black identity took hold of staid citizens, who once would have shown up merely for the spectacle. In Pittsburgh, Moses Carper, 35, the scholarly, bearded editor of a Negro neighborhood paper, declared: "When the first window shattered it was like a bell ringing. I was running in the streets, running from cops, running from my own fears. I had to know this involvement, and when it came, it was like a release...
...drew up much of last week's agenda for reform and argued persuasively for its adoption. Though he has not yet said whether he wants the post, Justice Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 46, has become something of a Roman candle in the usually staid, grey world of Canadian politics-and thus a candidate without having to declare himself...
...rise above a rundown economy, Britain's major industrial companies have moved into a flurry of mergers. Since last summer, consolidations have created Europe's largest steel company, second-largest auto producer and third-largest electrical-equipment manufacturer. Now the trend has spread into the once staid realm of banking. In the largest bank merger in Britain's history, Westminster Bank, the country's fourth largest (deposits: $4.2 billion), has just agreed to join forces with the fifth-largest, National Provincial Bank (deposits: $4.1 billion...