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...Ogden, who was installed by Government regulators in July as chairman of Continental Illinois: "A modern run on a bank doesn't show up in lines at the teller windows, but in an increasing erosion of its capacity to purchase large blocks of funds in money markets." To ward off such electronic panics, many banks have tried to widen their deposit base to include a larger number of savers and to court better relations with big depositors...
...coroner's office, even Dr. Frankenstein and Igor were more scientific. "Gentlemen," a coroner once declared when a head was found in a city sewer, "this is the work of a murderer." To quality as a deputy coroner, you had to possess the following: a letter from your ward boss, a wide-brimmed gray fedora, a diamond pinky ring, and a cigar. When somebody died of anything but natural causes, a deputy coroner rushed to the scene. They always rushed, because they were afraid the wagon men might grab a locket. Once there, it was the responsibility of the deputy...
Seven minutes into play, kelly Landry brought the puck up the ice and slipped it to Dinny Starr. Starr centered the puck to senior Liz Ward, who snapped a shot through the legs of Wildcat goalie Kathy Narsiff...
...Ward's goal came at 7:18, and at 7:28 Vivian Ferry knocked the first of five goals past Harvard goalie Tracy Kimmel...
...cited the questions surrounding 691 empty envelopes from Medford Ward 3, Precinct I as an example. "It creates an aura of suspicion so that we just don't know what went...