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- <text id=92TT0917>
- <title>
- Apr. 27, 1992: Business:Et Cetera
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Apr. 27, 1992 The Untold Story of Pan Am 103
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 21
- BUSINESS
- Et Cetera
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- <p>PLASTIC RELIEF
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- <p> Citibank, largest issuer of credit cards in the U.S.,
- announced that as of June 1 it will reward its best customers
- with lower credit-card interest rates--as little as 13.9% for
- Preferred Members. Other banks will probably follow, taking the
- bite out of congressional complaints about high rates and
- starting a war that consumers can win.
- </p>
- <p>A TITAN FELLED
- </p>
- <p> Italy's biggest postwar financial scandal brought down an
- industrial titan when Carlo De Benedetti, chairman of Olivetti,
- was sentenced to six years and four months in prison for
- complicity in the 1982 collapse of Banco Ambrosiano, Italy's
- largest private bank. He promises an appeal.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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