Word: cashier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ghetto bankers accept those risks as inevitable if they are to do their job, but they also have difficulty building a corps of experienced middle managers and attracting capital. Richard Linyard, director of the Seaway National Bank of Chicago, wore three hats until he could find a qualified cashier and controller. Some help on the second problem is coming from white bankers: the American Bankers Association has set up a closed-end investment corporation that has raised $4.5 million in just over two years and invested $1.1 million of it in minority banks...
...well-dressed man walked into a West German bank last week, drew a gun and told a cashier: "I want only Deutsche Marks. Don't give me any dollars, for heaven's sake." He made off with 54,000 marks...
Adjustments to the outside world have also been unsettling. When Ken takes the girls out for ice cream cones, he is likely to offer the cashier a dollar and wait for change, only to find the change is not in his favor: "That's a buck thirty-five mister." When North was in prison, he occasionally thought about the two homes he might own. "Now," he says, "I've discovered I can't afford those dreams and plans. Inflation has been so staggering I can't even equate my income with the cost of living...
...problems are -but it worries everyone, and there's more concern every day. I don't think the President has done wrong. I believe what he said on TV, and I can't fault him any more than I'd fault a bank president whose cashier steals money. Of course, the responsibility for what his aides did falls on the President's shoulders, and he has taken it. But I'm talking about responsibility-not guilt...
While some of Nastase's comrades are less than enthusiastic about his behavior, no one denies his talent. "Ilie's best shot," says Ashe, "is his athletic ability. He's so fast with his feet and hands." Nastase, the son of a bank cashier, began to display that ability at the age of eight on Bucharest's slow clay courts. As his career soared he teamed with glowering Ion Tiriac to make Rumania a formidable threat* in big-league tennis. Before last week, Nastase was acknowledged as the world's best on clay. His victory...