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Many members of Congress, including Judiciary's Rodino and Rhode Island Democrat Fernand St Germain, the chairman of the House Banking Committee, see a disturbing connection among high interest rates, sluggish growth and the merger explosion. In the bidding battle for Conoco alone, they note, the contestants lave lined up some $20 billion in standby bank credit. Though much of the financing comes from European banks, many economists and executives contend that heavy loan demands from the merger candidates help keep the U.S. money supply tight and make it more difficult for a small business to finance new machinery...
...quick-service, walk-in establishments that critics deride as "medical McDonald's." Now numbering about 150, most of them run for profit by private physicians, these places are known as freestanding emergency clinics, or FECs, because they are physically separate from hospital facilities. FECs appeared in Delaware and Rhode Island in the early and mid-1970s, but now the big growth area is the Sunbelt, particularly Texas...
Buckley will report to Bryant College training camp in Rhode Island on Monday, along with 57 other rookies, free agents and certain veterans...
...acres of woodland that the usually lush summer landscape looked as leafless as in late fall. This year's damage, patchily extending from northern Maine to Maryland and beyond, is far worse: an estimated 11 million acres of forest, an area larger than all of Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island...
...Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Missis sippi, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Tennessee and Texas...