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...doubt many consumers have been worried by a seemingly endless string of bad-news headlines about their banks. Says Val Adams, a marketing executive in Chicago: "The failures are just more proof that they don't know what they're doing, and that's kind of scary. I don't mean I'm going to take my money out and put it under my mattress, but I am concerned." Last week BankAmerica and First Chicago, two of the nation's largest institutions, said they were considering selling their landmark headquarters buildings. Reason: both banks...
...Zagorin was delayed by a traffic jam. "I ran to a pay phone to explain. Baldrige replied, 'I understand perfectly. I'll use the extra time to gather more material.' With perfect politeness, she had accepted my apology and put me at my ease." Reporter-Researcher Val Castronovo interviewed several observers of modern manners, including New Yorker Cartoonist William Hamilton and Social Critic Fran Lebowitz. She found them grappling with entirely new areas, such as smoking, computer and answering-machine etiquette. Says Castronovo: "It can be argued that the new manners include both lighting your companion...
President François Mitterrand last week made the first visit to Britain by a French head of state in eight years. Like two of his postwar predecessors, Charles de Gaulle and Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, the Socialist leader was accorded the rare honor of addressing members of both houses of Parliament. He used the occasion to issue a ringing appeal for European unity. Said Mitterrand: "The moment has come to make Europe become a genuine political reality, capable of asserting itself on the international scene...
After three years of political exile, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing has become the first former President since the Fifth Republic wa; founded in 1958 to regain a seat in the National Assembly. Giscard, who was defeated by François Mitterrand in 1981 , captured an impressive 63% of the vote in the department of Puy-de-Dôme regaining a seat he had held repeatedly since 1956. The winner who has made no secret of his desire to be the center-right presidential candidate in 1988, proclaimed his "victory of reason...
Labeling the lack of money "a pervasive problem." Princeton physics professor Val Fitch says that the lack of funds "simply means a slower pace for research. It's a linear relationship...