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Probably the trickiest aspect of managing a bank today is attracting a stable base of deposits. Loans are generally still made for long terms, but deposits have become increasingly

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Banking Takes a Beating | 12/3/1984 | See Source »

...trickiest thing to coordinate will be changes in research protocol," said Hunt. He added that any change in protocol, or plan of research, would have to meet with the approval of Harvard's research committee and that this might lead to occasional difficulties...

Author: By Jonathan N. Brachman, | Title: Federal Research Regulations Are Unlikely to Affect Harvard | 4/18/1984 | See Source »

Though both sides are worn down, the fighting drags on. South Africa still refuses to acknowledge, let alone encounter, spokesmen from SWAPO. Even if cease-fire talks could take place, they would not address the trickiest issue in the whole equation: the Cubans. For a breakthrough to occur, says a U.S. diplomat, "there would have to be an awful lot of common sense and logic. So far that has not been the case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Angola: Deadly Rite of the Rainy Season | 1/23/1984 | See Source »

...corona of curly hair, is a world away from the suave image of a Leonard Bernstein. Yet as his baton comes slashing down with swift, chopping strokes, he is abruptly transformed into a figure of grace. Cuing the orchestra, effortlessly guiding singers through an opera's trickiest passages, joyfully but inaudibly singing along, he has become Priestley's ideal personified. And why not? James Levine, 39, is doing what he was born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Maestro of the Met: James Levine is the most powerful opera conductor in America | 1/17/1983 | See Source »

...evacuation of the P.L.O. fighting force is handled, its removal from the scene will pose dangers to at least one of the Lebanese communities, the Muslims, as well as to the Palestinians who are left behind. Untying this knot, without undue risk to the parties concerned, is perhaps the trickiest part of the task that still confronts the negotiators on the hill above Beirut. ?By William E. Smith. Reported by Johanna McGeary/Washington and William Stewart/Beirut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beirut: A Fortress Under Heavy Fire | 7/19/1982 | See Source »

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