Word: walks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When words fail him, which is almost never, Moynihan does not mind making a point peripatetically: he will wander into the Security Council during a debate, walk around, sit down, get up, go out and come back in. "We sometimes feel that he does not take the Security Council seriously," complains one East Asian diplomat...
...early 1974 "Citicard Centers" appeared. That is a fancy name for small terminals spotted about a bank branch; by inserting their Citicards, customers can get information about their accounts without bothering to walk up to a teller's window. Within months the terminals were set up in department stores and other retail outlets to enable bank customers to pay for their purchases with personal checks that the merchant could quickly verify. Today Citibank has terminals in more than 2,500 retail outlets, 120 of them across the state line in New Jersey, where it is legally forbidden to open...
...compounding the economic woes the new King and his government have inherited from the dictator. After spectacular gains in the 1960s and early '70s, Spain's economy is now afflicted by a 15% inflation rate and rising unemployment. To bring about a recovery, the new government must walk a wobbly tightrope between the forces of left and right...
...Caligari's Cabinet, this would be it. The Ruckus group are omnivores, infatuated with New York, and you are never allowed to forget it. Archie Peltier, an artist from Minneapolis, was responsible for most of the engineering, and his handiwork is impressive. People can walk up inside the Ruckus World Trade Center, looking at its "tenants," finally meeting a diminutive figure of the funambulist Philippe Petit walking the rope between the towers...
Times are hard, but every year a few people walk straight out of Tercentenary Theatre and into the bosom of Fortune...