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...Association. In January Partee's term will expire, creating a second vacancy. When those two posts are filled, Reagan, who has already named Martin and Seger, will have picked a majority of the board. Since Federal Reserve governors serve 14- year terms, the board will bear the President's stamp long after he leaves office...
...using overwhelming force, the government was able to control the situation in the black townships, though it failed to stamp out the rioting. But the signs were growing that Pretoria is coming under increasing pressure from abroad. On Tuesday the government suspended all currency and stock-market trading until this week. That move followed a disastrous drop in the value of the South African rand, which was worth $1.29 in 1980, 80 cents in early 1984, and last week hit an all-time low of 35 cents. Another critical factor has been the refusal of many American and European banks...
Oraflex's troubles began in 1980, when it was marketed in the United Kingdom and eight other countries and submitted to the Food and Drug Administration for approval. The medicine received the FDA stamp in April 1982. Federal investigators maintain that Oraflex was a factor in the deaths of more than 100 people, including at least 26 in the U.S., between the time it first went on sale and August 1982, when it was removed from American store shelves...
Bankers used to pride themselves on being discreetly incurious about their depositors, even those who walked in with suitcases full of cash. But nowadays any American banker who looks the other way is looking for trouble. Reason: the Federal Government is trying to stamp out money laundering, the process by which banks often unwittingly help drug dealers, loan sharks and other criminals convert their conspicuous piles of small bills into checks and other instruments...
...flew in from Kansas to hand-deliver his delicate creations, while another tucked his into a cereal box insulated by stale flakes of Corn Total. A third, with touching trust in the U.S. Postal Service, simply scrawled the contest address across the wings of his plane and plastered a stamp onto its nose. They were competing in four events -- distance, time aloft, aerobatics and aesthetic design -- in three divisions, professional, nonprofessional and junior. The cardinal rule was that the planes had to be made from paper, tape and glue...