Word: trust
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trust Mr. Krauss will check his facts more assiduously on his next assignment. --Thomas F. Moore...
...didn't testify at the trial, Jackson did, and he lived up to his combative reputation. Asked why he didn't just pick up the phone and ask Gallo to change his design, he said it would have been "useless" to try. "Frankly, given his reputation, I didn't trust whatever he'd answer anyway." Jackson's flamboyant attorney, Fred Furth, a towering figure who strolled the courtroom corridors chewing on an unlit cigar the size of a flashlight, constantly jabbed at Gallo's "jug wine" reputation and drew a rebuke from the judge when he derided Gallo...
...When the trust placed in colleges evaporates in the face of unreasonable costs, the ivory towers will collapse under their own weight." STEPHEN D. HAUFE Clinton, Iowa...
...have been euthanized in the Netherlands without asking for it, and viewed this as merely "troublesome." Wouldn't "murder" be a more fitting description? (And 900 is only the number reported.) Many elderly people in the Netherlands today are afraid to enter a hospital and wonder whether they can trust their own doctors with their life. Physicians who once vowed to preserve and enhance life may now be authors of death. The Netherlands, though beloved as the land my parents emigrated from, is a frightening reminder of what can go wrong when doors are opened to euthanasia. RUTH MEERVELD Beamsville...
...YORK: Bankers Trust New York will merge with Alex. Brown & Sons in a $1.7 billion deal that is the biggest acquisition yet of a securities firm by a bank. The move is the most dramatic challenge yet to Glass-Seagull, a creaky piece of Depression-era legislation that prohibited banks from underwriting stocks in order to prevent potential conflicts of interest. Federal regulators have since 1989 allowed banks to conduct stock trades as long as the deals came to less than 10 percent of total revenues. After the feds raised that cap to 25 percent late last year, banks began...