Word: banks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cash? No problem, see that green and blue glow up ahead? Its a one-every-25 yards Bank Boston...
...Starbucks, Bank Boston, The Gap, Microsoft, Abercrombie and Fitch, AT&T, Victoria's Secret, Bertucci's Pizza Kitchen and all those others who have moved into every mall and mainstreet of America...
...When Bank Boston took an extra $16.42 out of my checking account last month, I saw this as a chance to take a big poke at the Man. I tried to reach Cindy in the Dispatch Department, but since it's only November and Lent is in March, I thought it might be best to head over to the actual bank of Bank Boston. Armed with my receipts and bank statements from the last year (one who fights the Man must always have the necessary documents in hand to prove she is correct), I plunked myself down in front...
There are several inevitabilities of modern life: death, taxes - and, for the moment, ATM fees. Monday, a federal judge in San Francisco issued a preliminary injunction against a ban on ATM banking fees that city residents approved earlier this month. The measure would block "double dip" charges, fees levied on consumers who use cash machines belonging to banks other than their own. Currently, both the consumer's bank and the ATM operator take a cut, which can result in a hit of up to $3.50 per use. That's a hefty sum to pay for a transaction that costs banks...
...bank representative will tell you, financial institutions have to cover the expense of setting up all these ATMs, and if consumers find the fees so unpalatable, they should probably just find a machine operated by their own bank. Many people agree. "I think it's amazing that anyone would expect to use another bank's ATM without paying a fee," says TIME finance writer Daniel Kadlec. And what about moments when you're trapped 60 miles southeast of Oshkosh and you can't find your own ATM machine? "These machines are an extraordinary convenience," says Kadlec...