Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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 to the mailbox...
...million customers are using it. And even as new banks come on-line, a handful (including San Francisco's Crocker National, Los Angeles' First Interstate and Miami's Dadeland Bank) have quietly discontinued their electronic services. "It's slow going," admits Paul Ayres, a vice president at Columbus' Huntington National. "It's one of those products customers aren't beating down our doors and demanding...
Historian George Stewart once amused himself by imagining the course of U.S. history if America had been discovered not on its Atlantic side by Christopher Columbus but on its Pacific side by a 15th century Chinese explorer named Ko Lum Bo. As hardy immigrants from the Orient began to establish colonies in the sweeping new continent, Stewart wrote in mock retrospect, they naturally ! adhered as closely as possible to the customs of their native land. Accordingly, "vast areas of the country were terraced and irrigated as rice paddies. The colonists continued to use their comfortable flowing garments, and pagodas dotted...
...here are as subtle as a rattrap sprung on a boy's foot. Dense, oppressively frenetic, heavy on the slapstick and low on the charm meter, the film asks to be experienced, not cherished. This efficient thrill machine contains gag homages to its makers' earlier work (E.T., Screenwriter Chris Columbus' Gremlins, Director Richard Donner's Superman) and even self-critical lines of dialogue ("I feel like I'm baby- sitting except I'm not getting paid...
...Born in Columbus, the son of a banker whose institution failed in the Depression, Smith moved to Detroit with his parents. His father got a new job with a parts supplier now known as the Bundy Corp. Young Smith went off to the University of Michigan during World War II, then spent two years in the Navy. He finished the work for his bachelor's degree in business administration at Ann Arbor in 1947, earned an M.B.A. there two years later and immediately joined GM's accounting department...