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Article: The Wheels of Wealth;For the World's Bankers, A Glut on the Market
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- September 29, 1989
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They looked evil, mysterious, those limousines lined like
promises, like something sordid might be happening behind the smoked
windows. They floated in and out of Washington traffic all week, and
double-parked like greed incarnate.
It wasn't the Rolling Stones. Or Steve Martin.
It was bankers. Finance ministers. Economists. Clerks of
every kind.
There were sightings of starchy men of many nationalities in pin
stripes and hyper-polished shoes. Wives walked beside them, with
Margaret Thatcher hair and sensible pumps and nondescript but
expensive handbags, the kind with perfect seams. The bankers-maybe
15,000 of them-arrived last weekend for the annual International
Monetary Fund/World ...