Bank of the West

'Mimic War' no more: 'Little Phil' and 'Old Jube' get serious.(Battle of Charles Town)(Event overview)
Civil War Times; 2/1/2010; 4030 words; ...Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan. In addition to Crook's Army of West Virginia (informally known as the VIII Corps), Sheridan was...the dominant terrain feature was Opequon Creek, whose steep banks bisected the ground north to south between Harpers Ferry and...

Low-hanging fruit: can collecting leftover produce help us re-envision the world?(gleaning)
Earth Island Journal; 1/1/2010; 2417 words; ...OMITTED] Mike Cohen, executive director of the Bellingham Food Bank in Washington, often gets phone calls from area farmers who...both religious and secular, urban and rural, on the East and West Coasts, and throughout the heartland. While it once made...deliver them to one or more of two-dozen outlets, such as ...

Bayonets at midnight: after British troops captured the river fortress at Stony Point in 1779, George Washington was determined to drive them out with force and fixed bayonets.(Report)
Military History; 1/1/2010; 4239 words; ...were small forts at Stony Point on the west bank and Verplanck Point on the east bank...s Ferry the British also menaced West Point, just 12 miles upriver. Eager...Y., from where he could protect West Point without exposing his army. Washington...

How the bull came of age ; Fuelled by a sustained burst of greenbacks from foreign portfolio investors, and a slow but steady increase in participation from retail investors, the stock markets have more than adequately captured the India growth story. There's no looking back now.
Business Today; 12/27/2009; 1622 words; ...today, it s largely because of cues that filter through from the West. If the Dow Jones Industrial average sneezes, the Sensex and...are pointers to such an emerging scenario. When the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) purchased 200 tonnes of gold from the International...

Welcome to the financial hypermart ; Retail lending took off in the past decade. In the next 10 years, it will come of age.
Business Today; 12/27/2009; 1357 words; ...FORWARD Share of retail loans in banks total loans jumped from 5...loans to rise further to 35% in banks total loans Home loan outstanding...Consider some numbers. Reserve Bank data reveals that housing loans account for the bulk of banks retail portfolio, at 44 per...because of a similar trend in ...