Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...named the Chase-Manhattan Bank, Morgan Guaranty, Citibank, Merrill-Lynch and Bankers' Trust as members of the Atomic Industrial Forum, a nuclear power lobby. These corporations own more than 70 per cent of the stock in utilities now building nuclear reactors, he said...
BankAmerica further vows to reveal "direct dollar expenses" of its "government relations" programs (which include lobbying efforts) at federal, state and local levels. It will list all companies in which its trust department has investments of $1 million or more, disclose its ten largest holdings of municipal securities and report its profits or losses on dealings in foreign currency. All these matters are of interest to analysts who try to gauge the soundness of bank finances; Franklin National Bank in New York, for instance, failed in 1974 largely because of huge losses in foreign-currency speculation...
With all his activities, Karajan can still offer the advice, "Keep one thing in life and forget everything else," and mean it. For him it is "that wall to lean my back on," the Berlin Philharmonic. Such is the trust between Karajan and his musicians that he often conducts with his eyes closed. "I can feel the players better," he says. He gives few entry cues and the vaguest of cutoff gestures. Explains Karajan: "Baton technique is what the people see, but it is all nonsense. The hands do their job because they have learned what...
...doubts among skeptics remain strong. Gould believes Burt's data "are unusable." Even Herrnstein admits he would no longer use them in papers of his own, since "the appearance of trust-worthiness is as important as trust-worthiness itself" in academic documentation...
...conduct of governments supposedly regarded as allies. While this sort of concern seems justified given the sort of allies American administrations have been inclined to choose, it is indicative of the perversity of American foreign relations. Not only has the United States chosen allies that it cannot trust, but the integrity of the American political process has been jeopardized for the sake of these allies and the mutual suspicions engendered by the alliances themselves...