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...market share by buying local banks, particularly on the West Coast. Mitsubishi Bank bought the Bank of California in 1984, while the Bank of Tokyo acquired the Union Bank of Los Angeles in 1988. The Japanese own four of California's 10 largest banks. Starting from near zero five years ago, Japanese banks account for at least 10% of all commercial loans made...
This free-enterprise spirit is already much in evidence among Moscow street artists, who are doing brisk business with a variation of the famous matryoshka dolls. The new set contains caricatures of five Communist leaders from Lenin to Gorbachev. Cost...
...compete abroad more effectively, Citi has spent an estimated $1.3 billion on computers and telecommunications in the past five years. Its advanced communications have enabled the bank to remain the world's top dealer in foreign currencies. The firm also operates the world's largest network of automated teller machines and has introduced such innovations as the touch- tone screen. The bank is currently linking its 2,000 ATMs worldwide, so travelers in, say, Singapore can tap their accounts in New York City or Buenos Aires. With a reach like that, Citicorp will remain a major player on the world...
Raymond Belknap, 18, was excited about the Christmas present he was giving his best friend, James Vance, 20: a heavy-metal rock record by the British band Judas Priest. For five hours the young men listened to the raucous, apocalyptic throb of the music while they smoked marijuana and split a dozen beers. Violent fantasies were nothing new to either of them. Vance had choked his mother on one occasion and hit her with a hammer on another; Belknap had stolen money and a van and exposed himself to women; both talked of leaving their hometown of Sparks...
...that he and his friend were driven by the lyrics of Judas Priest. "All of a sudden," he said, "we got a suicide message, and we got tired of life." Last week his family and Belknap's mother brought that eerie charge to trial in Reno. Four of the five members of Judas Priest, who perform in metal mesh and studded leather, sat at the defendants' table dressed in business suits and heard themselves accused of murderous "mind control." Said guitarist Glenn Tipton in an interview: "We were shocked. Nothing in the album says, 'Go do this, go do that...