Word: daine
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bank of America began barring noncustomers from using their ATMs in Santa Monica, Calif., after the city council banned surcharges. San Francisco residents may soon be facing the same fate. "The banks have a right to earn a return on their investment," argues Joseph Morford, a banking analyst for Dain Rauscher Wessels in San Francisco. The machines cost up to $50,000 each. But consumers now appear to be lowering their own costs by cutting back on trips to the ATM. Amortize that...
...industry that paints its own steel. Rundell boasts that "typically we are able to double the profit performance" of any company NCI takes over. Financial analysts praise NCI's managers for resisting all temptations to stray from their anti-conglomerate pattern. In all their acquisitions, says Bill Baker of Dain Raucher Inc., "they have never been seduced into areas they know nothing about...
...catering to customers' desires, Nordstrom (1996 sales: $4.5 billion) has been slow to jump on hot retailing trends and appreciate fully the passion of Americans for brand names and logos. "You might still have [Nordstrom] as your first choice," says Dean Ramos, who follows the company for the firm Dain Bosworth in Minneapolis, Minnesota. "But if they are not giving you what you want, you are going to go elsewhere...
...same seeing [alternative movies] at home," said Mike V. Dain, who lives in Boston and frequents the Brattle a couple of times a month. "It's a communal experience. The people who come here are devoted fans...
...million, as computers spat out refunds before IRS examiners could go over the returns. Such incidents have led critics to warn that the rush to automated payment systems is proceeding too fast even for computer experts. "The demands on software are far outpacing the development of software," says Dain Gary, a manager at the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie-Mellon University...