Word: atm
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...Congress is not an ATM." ROBERT BYRD, Democratic Senator from West Virginia, to Paul Wolfowitz, on the White House's postwar funding request...
Other companies are working out ways to limit the wave of terrorism that a bio-attack could set in motion. At Los Alamos and at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif., scientists have developed an air-quality testing unit the size of an ATM. When installed in subway stations, airports, arenas or convention centers, these devices sample the air and submit it to tests in a self-contained laboratory. Within an hour, they can report the presence of anthrax, smallpox or other pathogens...
...wife of the Saudi ambassador to the U.S., Prince Bandar bin Sultan, was found to have given money directly to the family of a Saudi man in San Diego who befriended and assisted two of the 9/11 hijackers. Yet the Administration acted as if she had merely misplaced her ATM card. Some branches of the Saudi royal family (a clan with 7,000 princes) actively cultivate ties with radical groups to gain political support in their own country, according to a former senior White House aide. Yet in Washington mere mention of a Riyadh connection with the war on terrorism...
...Western Union had the option to buy Alexander Graham Bell's new telephone but dismissed it in an internal memo as a device that "is inherently of no value to us." Bell sold the rights to what is now AT&T. First Data's pending purchase of ATM powerhouse Concord EFS shows that it is determined that Western Union won't get left behind this time. --With reporting by Deborah Edler Brown/Los Angeles, Paul Cuadros/Durham, Cheryl Jackson/Chicago and Dolly Mascarenas/Coatetelco
...leeze buy me this, mom!" Every parent has heard the plaintive wail of a child begging for one more toy, outfit or serving of fast food. In his book Prodigal Sons & Material Girls: How Not to Be Your Child's ATM (Wiley), financial adviser Nathan Dungan, based in Minneapolis, Minn., offers helpful advice on ways beleaguered parents can respond. Confront the issue head on, he says. "Consumer-product companies are playing for keeps in shaping the financial habits of these young people." TIME recently spoke with Dungan...