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...were his ambitions. Called back to New York in 1960 after managing the Philadelphia branch office for five years, he sought and won authority to open a long-range planning section that laid the groundwork for transforming Merrill Lynch from a chain of brokerage offices into an enormous financial supermarket, complete with insurance, real estate and savings services. As a result, Merrill Lynch was able to breeze past the collapse of the '60s go-go market and, as the deregulation era dawned, to become a serious contender for retail-banking customers. Asked in 1979 to describe the financial institution...
...American and Soviet citizens have many differences to discuss," Russell told the city council last night, adding. "These differences can be the sparks that ignite a war, or they can be the groundwork upon which we will build a peace by increasing understanding of each other's values, history and visions for the future...
...important payoff for Duarte's meticulous groundwork was the reaction of rightist politicians and conservative businessmen in San Salvador. Declared the powerful National Association of Private Enterprise, a group that had long opposed Duarte's left-of-center economic policies: "If the Salvadoran terrorists lay down their arms and work in peace toward their objectives, they are welcome to work shoulder-to-shoulder in the country's electoral process...
Though his press conference words were mellower, Reagan did not remove his standing preconditions for talks, namely that the groundwork be carefully prepared and that the two sides be well along toward some sort of agreement...
Somewhere along the line, they got to be friends, and sometime after that--one a little before the other--they found they were better directors than actors. By then they were rooming together in Adams House and spending incessant hours talking about theater. And they had laid the groundwork for three phenomena almost equally legendary in Harvard theater circles today: the Rauch directing career, the Warner directing career, and the Rauch-Warner friendship, which has oscillated ever since between intense mutual support and equally intense rivalry over actors, stage space, and even scripts...