Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...automated-teller machines used by most banks generally offer 24-hour customer service, but less often for free. According to the Bank Administration Institute, an industry trade group, by year's end 63% of banks with ATMs are likely to impose charges for the use of their money machines. Some charges are hefty: 75 cents per transaction at Chase Lincoln Bank in Rochester for using another bank's ATMs, or $1.50 at Pittsburgh's Mellon Bank for using a nationwide ATM system...
Indeed, Government involvement grew slowly at first because most trade was carried out within individual states and therefore overseen by local and state officials. But westward expansion and the development of an extensive railroad and canal system spurred interstate markets. In 1887 Congress created the Interstate Commerce Commission, the first major federal business regulatory agency. The commission was established in part to combat price gouging by the railroads...
Still, many blacks support divestiture as a means to pressure the Botha government. A crippled economy, it is hoped, will eventually force the government to make meaningful reforms. Among the defenders of corporate pullouts are the Congress of South African Trade Unions and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and leader of the Anglican Church in Southern Africa...
...boats appeared to be moving through tall grass. It was a serene illusion. The tawny-green South Carolina marsh spread for a mile, hiding the waterway so that only decks and sails were visible. Playing off the seen against the unseen is one of the tricks of the writing trade and of particular current interest to James Dickey, whose second work of fiction relies heavily on the uncanny perceptions of a blind...
...White House may be more conciliatory than Congress. Though a senior State Department official says Japan and Norway "took their time waking up to the problem," he contends that both countries have since responded vigorously. President Reagan probably does not want a fresh trade confrontation with Tokyo; just two weeks ago he lifted some of the tariffs he had imposed on Japanese imports after the semiconductor dispute...