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Yenching employees had expressed disappointment on Monday when they learned of the possible name switch. "If you change it to a typical American name, it would lose some originality," said Sungha Kim, head of Yenching's Korean division...
...county chairman, served in the Baptist ministry until nine years ago. Now he preaches economic salvation through Reaganomics. He favors an extension of unemployment benefits as a temporary remedy but otherwise counsels patience. "We have paid 70% of the cost of a revitalized economy," he insists, "and if we switch theory and people now, we lose that investment...
...Dying is easy, comedy is hard," Swann intones at one point, claiming this switch on an ancient show-biz truism is an expiring actor's last words, but My Favorite Year's writers and director are sometimes too determined to make it seem as comfortable as possible. The script occasionally ladles warm chicken soup over situations where a spritz in the face would be more appropriate. There are times when Actor Richard Benjamin, making his debut as a feature-film director, is too content with a scene's obvious values to find a handle to twist...
...community-service jobs, such as driving buses and delivering Meals-on-Wheels, would be thrown out of work. Many Republicans were irked that the White House had not forewarned them in August that Reagan might veto the bill; they approved the legislation then, and now resented being asked to switch their votes on a measure with popular appeal...
...some 200 customers of New York's Chemical Bank, the tedious chore of checking their balances or paying their bills no longer means standing in line at the neighborhood branch office. Instead, they simply switch on their Atari home computers, telephone a special Chemical Bank number, punch in some secret password codes and numbers into their machines and conduct all their banking business from their living rooms...