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- <text id=91TT1839>
- <title>
- Aug. 19, 1991: Business Notes:Community Development
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Aug. 19, 1991 Hostages:Why Now? Who's Next?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 47
- Business Notes
- COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
- A Megabank Lends a Hand
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- <p> Angry small-business owners in Texas who don't get loans from
- NCNB, the giant Southern bank, sometimes say the initials stand
- for "No Cash for No Body." The gripes grew even louder last
- month, when NCNB and C&S/Sovran said they would merge to form
- the third largest U.S. bank. Critics predicted short shrift for
- the poor and struggling. But last week the new giant,
- NationsBank, promised to lend $10 billion during the next decade
- in a community-development program that will encompass nine
- states. Goals include the financing of affordable housing and
- consumer loans for workers "left on the sidelines of economic
- progress."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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