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Old San Francisco, long gaseous with self-regard (self-esteem is for Oakland), suffered a grievous deflating April 13 when Bank of America--banker to entrepreneurs and immigrants; builder of new industries; capitalizer of the California Dream; financier, indeed, gallant financier of the Golden Gate Bridge--announced its merger with NationsBank to form BankAmerica and its plans to move bank headquarters from San Francisco to Charlotte, N.C.
Also in Newsweek , drug-of-last-week ketamine, or "Special K" (see last week's Time), gives way to drug-of-this-week gamma hydroxybutyrate, known as "GHB" or "Grievous Bodily Harm."
Yet the media consensus is that McCain is ready for Bush in New Hampshire, while Bradley has suffered a grievous blow and faces the likelihood of a conclusive defeat next week.
Since it is obvious that studios will want to immediately correct this grievous social injustice, Today's Papers feels compelled to confess that it is a black woman over fifty.
Of the two, the W geographical listings seem more complete: W lists Aylesbury , which, through some grievous, egregious fault, is not in the geographical section of the L but does appear in the A-Z section (because of the ducks).