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Slight of build, Kelly, 44, had thrown herself with passion into campaigns against the stationing of intermediate-range nuclear weapons in Germany and for the creation of an ecologically sound public policy. The founding of the Greens made her perhaps the world's best-known environmentalist...
Bankers, for their part, complain that the biggest factor inhibiting new lending is the huge regulatory net Washington has thrown over the entire industry. "The banking system is currently overmanaged and controlled by regulators," says Joe Belew, president of the Consumer Bankers Association, a national group of retail banks. "If you squeeze out the risk factor, you also squeeze out a number of debatable lending opportunities. Only people with perfect records will then get the upper hand. But few of us have perfect records." Nor do banks relish the thought of having federal examiners constantly looking over their shoulder. "When...
Lenders have also witnessed the spectacle of seeing S&L executives thrown into jail. This has heightened the fear among bankers and board directors, as well as among their accountants and attorneys, that they could face criminal liability if a loan goes bad and imperils the bank. "There is a real fear among lenders," says Lawrence Hunter, chief economist of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, "that a bad business decision in this day and age stands the risk of becoming criminal activity...
...Black in the modern world," he said, "isto be thrown...into a state where one is at war"with the onslaught of identity-denying tenets...
...first-year student was struck by a bottle thrown into a crowd at a Head of the Charles dance Friday night...