Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...market red checks. To date he has sold some 60,000 (at a nickel apiece for orders of 500), Except for the color, the check is a blushing copy of the personal checks that his customers send in to be reproduced; the red-faced checks even include the bank's magnetized numbers for automatic sorting. It is possible to microfilm the checks with special equipment, but most banks find that regular processing produces a gray blur. Bankers speculate that since banks are required by law to keep microfilm records, a time may come when an individual...
Lebanese officials meanwhile admitted to knowing of only 20 cases in their country (unofficial estimate: 100). Jordan announced 314 cases, Saudi Arabia 17. Israel had three, all West Bank residents, one of whom had traveled to Jordan. While Turkey remained silent about the disease within its borders, a woman who had just arrived in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, from the Turkish city of Erzurum was hospitalized with cholera. The four other cases in Europe also involved victims who had been traveling in either Turkey or Iraq. Opposition politicians in Turkey accused the Ankara government of hiding the news that 34 children...
...plot of Annie Hall has the two underweight egos twine together, rose and briar. For a while they twitch as one, forming a touching sort of pill pool and neurosis bank in Alvy's Manhattan apartment. Then it is over. Annie drifts off to Los Angeles; Alvy writes a play about the affair, wistfully giving it a happy ending in which the lovers unite. The film's details are not meant to match reality exactly. Keaton, then 22, and Allen, then 33, met when he was casting his Broadway comedy Play It Again, Sam, not after a tennis match...
After a movie is shot, it takes a long ime for the dice to stop rolling. A lot rests on the gamble of Goodbar. Keaton's career, Brooks' bank account and, to a certain degree, the immediate future of serious films about women. Meanwhile, Keaton is back in Manhattan, renewing acquaintances with her cats and her analyst, thinking lazily about changing apartments, studying a new Woody Allen script. The film has no title yet, but rehearsals begin next week. Allen himself will direct the picture, but not act in it. He reports with much satisfaction that the film is very...
Beryl Sprinkel, executive vice president of Harris Trust & Savings Bank in Chicago and a member of TIME's Board of Economists, suggests a third reason: the Fed sets targets for both money-supply growth and interest rates, and it has had great difficulty in choosing goals that are consistent with each other. For example, it may try to keep the "Fed funds" rate -the rate on reserves that banks lend to each other-at around 6%. But it may then find that in order to prevent the rate from rising above that, it has to pump reserves into...