Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Greatest Lover is more of the same. This is sad, for Wilder does have a fresh sensibility of his own to offer: here and there in his films one can find a sweet romantic streak and the beginnings of a surreal visual style. But Wilder refuses to trust his own instincts. Every time his movies start to travel down an original path, he pulls back and pays dim homage to Blazing Saddles...
...result, small investors have pulled out of the market by the millions to put their money into bonds, land, coins, wine-anything that is either tangible or seems less risky than shares. Trading consists mostly of transactions between the big institutions: mutual funds, pension funds, bank trust departments. And managers of the pension funds, who invest more than $100 billion, have a special reason for worry: Congress in 1974 passed a law permitting receivers of pensions to sue managers of the funds for poor investment performance. Fearful fund managers have adopted a supercautious strategy, setting themselves the modest goal...
...down erratically, and has generally increased at a rate that most conservative monetarists consider to be too inflationary. Nevertheless, many businessmen fear that if Burns is not reappointed, the money spigot may be turned on even more fully. Says Gabriel Hauge, chairman of New York's Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co.: "The key to a long life for this expansion is a sustainable pace, and to that end policymakers must resist the temptation to speed up the expansion by sharply intensifying monetary and fiscal stimuli. Continuing the tenure of the present chairman of the Federal Reserve Board would...
...precisely this possibility, that Sadat might make a separate deal with Israel, that both angers and frightens the radical Arabs. At the start of the Tripoli summit, Libya's Gaddafi said to P.L.O. Leader Yasser Arafat: "I told you all along that Sadat was not a man to trust. Now you know that I was right." Arafat shook his head in silent acquiescence. Without Saudi backing, Sadat simply could not sign such a peace agreement and hope to keep his stature as a leader within the Arab world. In Cairo, however, some diplomats last week were speculating about...
...good thing, because Ole Kris Kringle just wasn't made to squeeze into the revolving doors of department stores, and security guards are naturally suspicious of anybody carrying a big sack like his. And how many department stores would take a check drawn on the North Pole Savings and Trust? Cashing one from a New York bank is tough enough...