Word: atm
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...many non-Wall Street types have seen lately are the weeds sprouting in the parking lots of abandoned malls. Unemployment is marching toward 10%, and house foreclosures are still rising. If you're a day late with your credit-card payment or overdrawn by a few bucks on your ATM card, the bank (which your tax money helped bail out) is still sticking you with obscene fees and charges. Hence the question that so many of us are asking: Where's my bailout? (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
...There is an easy solution to avoid the fee. Just become a customer." - On complaints following Bank of America's decision to increase its ATM fee from $2 to $3 in 2008. (The Myrtle Beach Sun-News, in South Carolina, March...
After waiting half an hour in a line of 20 people at the dusty ATM, Eduard Markov finally walks away with his old leather wallet bulging with rubles. Like thousands of others in the northern Russian industrial town of Pikalyovo, the 44-year-old clay-quarry worker had not been paid in three months. But now he at least has enough to buy the basics - meat, vodka, noodles, oil and fruit - from shops that just a few days ago were empty of customers...
...wouldn't have seen anything like this - people were fed up and angry," says Alexander Plush, 41, another former factory worker standing in line at the ATM. Plush had worked for 17 years at one of the Pikalyovo cement factories until it closed a few months ago. "Before we got paid, people were living on bread and water and the food they could grow in their gardens this early in the year," he says...
...captain being free." Indeed, soon after tugboats pushed the Maersk Alabama into port, crew members began to praise Phillips. "He saved our lives!" said one man, identified by The Associated Press as second mate Ken Quinn, of Bradenton, Florida. "He's a hero." Another, who identified himself as ATM Reza, said that he had persuaded one pirate to go to the engine room, where he overpowered the pirate, stabbing him in the hand and tying him up. (Photographer Jehad Nga offers a rare glimpse of the men who plunder the east coast of Africa...