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Herbert Ross has come up with the best solution yet to this dilemma in his film The Turning Point. He avoids this undesirable trade-off by casting a competent actress who cannot pirouette her way out of a paper bag (Anne Bancroft) in one of the two lead roles--a...
The Manufacturers loan This loan seemed to come closest to violating the law that bars a bank officer from setting up a correspondent relationship with another bank solely to acquire a personal loan. Lance asked for a $2.6 million loan from the New York bank on April 16, 1975, so...
Critics of the proposal have focused their attack on the consumer advocates' implicit assumption that there is some uniform consumer interest that the agency could identify and represent. Of course, in many cases this assumption is unjustified. Consumers have many interests, some of which are mutually exclusive; for instance, there...
This series of concessions was a key element of Vance's negotiating tactics. Reports TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott from Geneva: "There was a consensus among American policymakers that the U.S. made a mistake by putting the Kremlin on the defensive before and during Vance's mission to...
Turning to details of the presidential package, Schlesinger said that it dealt with two time frames: the next ten years and beyond. For the next decade, he said, the U.S. will rely mainly on strict conservation and the two "bridging fuels," coal and conventionally produced nuclear energy. "We are going...