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...sell insurance across state borders. Unbowed, the banks have now started pressuring Congress for a legislative change to let their strategy go ahead. Citicorp Vice Chairman Hans Angermueller bluntly says that his company's tactic is "to batter at every barrier at all times." With that kind of zeal behind it, full national banking is probably not far away...
...Albert Bierstadt, both exceptionally well represented in this show. Each image of waterfall and mountain, volcano and precipice becomes an act of appropriation, the pictorial equivalent to the myth of Manifest Destiny. Practically no French or English painting of the day presents such pre-Cinemascope prodigies with such coercive zeal; with them, the idea of American vision almost becomes a fetish...
...United States Information Agency (then called the International Communication Agency) was a neglected foreign policy backwater before Charles Z. Wick, 66, became its director in 1981, but the former Hollywood moviemaker, venture capitalist and, most important, close friend of Ronald Reagan's has brought to the agency righteous zeal and a show-biz tone. He has also earned an uncomplimentary reputation for a bumptious manner and an attention-getting lifestyle...
...THEIR ZEAL to stamp out every lingering vestige of America's religious roots, civil libertarians ignore the deeply ingrained cultural traditions that have marked the Christmas season. Hopefully, the Supreme Court will acknowledge such customs and rule in favor of Pawtucket. This is not to say, however, that Nativity scenes should be placed in every municipality. Constitutional permissibility does not imply good public policy...
...causing the loss of precious experimental data. Computers mysteriously broke down, and a larder of food inexplicably spoiled (although there were enough fresh provisions on board to keep the spacemen fed). Communications links, already occasionally garbled because of a satellite problem, were hopelessly overtaxed. A major difficulty was the zeal of the ground scientists, about 200 researchers from Europe, the U.S., Canada and Japan, who have worked up to five years or more on their experiments. As they bombarded the astronauts with commands, often in unfamiliar accents and at times absentmindedly reversing earlier instructions, the irritation of the spacemen rose...