Word: cashier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week-he was to be ready with another payment of $14 million. Creekmore associates say the Endowment always made it clear that it wanted no part of long-term financing. Whatever the agreement had actually been, the Endowment and Creekmore gave Mecom its interpretation when he arrived with his cashier's check for $14 million. He offered to double the amount. They said that he could have 48 hours to raise the entire remaining $84 million or he could keep his money. Mecom hit the ceiling and walked out. The entire deal was off. "If they stabbed Big John...
Under the honor system, shoppers select their groceries, tot up their tab on an adding machine, then pay a cashier. The sum is never questioned. "From time to time," says Migros Sales Chief Rolf Frieden, "we have customers who come back saying they underpaid us, but it happens just as often the other way. We always make up the difference, no questions asked." At the test store, sales went up, overhead went down, and pilferage amounted to only 0.3% of sales, just about what it had been before...
...Department Store. It is Dec. 24 at the Galeries Lafayette department store in Paris. Into the throng of late shoppers come two colossally inept hoods (Jean-Claude Brialy, Albert Remy), intent on hijacking 100 million francs from the cashier's office. Straight off, they discover that they have forgotten to bring tools. Detouring to "basement hardware," they lose more time through a plumbing mishap, Santa's payday and a jammed elevator-then, none too brilliantly, bring off the heist. A couple of minutes later, they lose the cash to a teen gang that has been holding...
...turn, have been loudly crying for Garcia-Godoy to fire Rivera Caminero and the rest of the service chiefs for their so-called "genocide" early in the civil war. At one point, Garcia-Godoy came out of a four-hour Cabinet meeting ready to bow to the rebels and cashier the generals-which would have meant an almost certain bloodbath...
...nothing less than the 22,300-mile synchronous orbit conceived by Clarke back in 1945. They were sure they could lick its formidable problems, but they could not convince the Hughes management. "One day," says Hughes Vice President Lawrence A. Hyland, "Williams walked into my office and laid a cashier's check for $10,000-his entire savings-on my desk. 'Here's what I want to contribute to the program,' he said. 'I'm sorry it's all I can do.'" It was enough. Williams' check was returned...