Word: check
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From his home in Mill Valley, Calif., anytime between 6 a.m. and midnight, Attorney Gregory Dyer can use his personal computer to check his balance at BankAmerica and transfer money between accounts. With his lap computer, Larry Lape, a business executive, does much of his personal banking from hotel rooms ; hundreds of miles away from his hometown Huntington National Bank in Columbus. Without leaving his home, Page Stodder, a Cleveland investment banker, can use his PC to pay bills from 82 different companies. Says Stodder: "It's faster than writing checks, putting stamps on envelopes and taking them...
...India officials in Tokyo confirmed that an "A. Singh" and an "L. Singh" had booked seats on Canadian Pacific Flight 003 as well as on a connecting Air India flight from Tokyo to Bombay. Ultimately, neither man boarded either plane, although L. Singh did check his luggage through in Vancouver. The reservation for the connecting Air India flight from Tokyo prompted speculation that the bomb that exploded at Narita Airport, possibly in L. Singh's luggage, was meant to go off aboard the Tokyo-Bombay flight, but had detonated prematurely. Reports in the Japanese press that a plastic explosive...
...search for answers continued, tightened security arrangements went into effect at airports around the world. In Athens, the lift-off point for the hijacked TWA Flight 847, reinforced police detachments were stationed at check-in counters, and airport personnel conducted frequent hand searches of luggage. In West Germany, police used bomb-sniffing dogs to patrol terminals, and some passengers were asked to identify their luggage on the tarmac before it was loaded. In the U.S., the Federal Aviation Administration asked airlines to put into effect special procedures that included holding cargo for 24 hrs. before shipment and discontinuing curbside baggage...
...Austrian Billy Wilder) or the sleek thrillers of London-born Alfred Hitchcock. Audrey Hepburn, from Belgium, was crowned princess of the box office; Cary Grant, from Bristol, was still the monarch of masculinity. Everyone was so assimilated that you couldn't spot the immigrants without a security check. American films, once an obsession, were now an agreeable habit, as the rest of the world began attending to its own dreams and nightmares...
...year-old son Rolf. In response, the rival weekly Stern ran six pages of photographs chronicling the same period of lonely exile. Gerald Posner, a New York lawyer who has pursued the Mengele story for four years and who had flown to West Germany from Sao Paulo to check the veracity of the Bunte documents, expressed no doubts whatsoever. "I'd be willing to bet anyone this material is authentic," he said...