Word: branches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with their life savings. Janet Pruitt, vice president for electronic banking products at Shawmut Corp. of Boston, cites another drawback: "A PC sitting at your home won't be able to withdraw cash or make deposits." For these transactions, a customer must still trek to the local bank branch or automatic teller machine. Moreover, many home-banking systems are still plagued by shutdowns and glitches. Complaints range from confusing instructions to payments that end up not with creditors but in electronic limbo...
...from Lebanon's Shi'ites, who constitute some 40% of the population but have long been relegated to second-class citizenship. In the process of winning an enhanced status, however, the Shi'ites have become a dangerously radicalized and fractious lot. The outcome of the internecine disputes within this branch of Islam could have a profound effect on the larger struggle for political control in Lebanon and on the outcome of the current hostage crisis...
...views expressed in the Journal did not go unchallenged. Dr. Sandra Levy, a former chief of the behavioral medicine branch of the National Cancer Institute, agreed that biology is the major determinant. But she charged that what was measured in the Philadelphia study was "limited and superficial" and that science was not "well served" by the Journal's editorial position. Her own studies of women with breast cancer, Levy said, suggest that cancer patients who are passive, stoic and helpless fare less well than others...
Walker worked for two years in the Norfolk branch of Wackenhut, a national firm providing industrial security services. While there he was sued for inflicting "emotional distress" by a wealthy Virginia Beach couple who claimed that Walker snooped around their home in varied disguises: as a birdwatcher wearing a green bag with eyeholes over his head and carrying a telescope; as a Boy Scout leader looking for a place to camp; as a Catholic priest. Next, Walker went into business for himself, digging up evidence in divorce cases and probing phony insurance claims. He also swept business offices for hidden...
...program, a branch of New York's public high school system, was named in honor of the San Francisco official and homosexual activist who was murdered in 1978 along with that city's mayor, George Moscone. Housed in space rented from the Washington Square United Methodist Church, it is administered by the city's board of education in conjunction with the Institute for the Protection of Lesbian and Gay Youth, a private advocacy group. Board of education officials pointed out last week that Harvey Milk is only one of 38 adjunct school programs in New York. Others serve drug addicts...