Word: deposit
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Popular slugger Ichiro Suzuki, winner of the Pacific League batting crown, received an unusual honor: beginning this week, customers at Hyogo Bank can put their savings into an Ichiro Deposit Account that will pay 3.85% interest -- matching Suzuki's .385 average. Meanwhile, Sadaharu Oh, left, the retired Yomiuri Giants great who holds the world record for career home runs with 868 (surpassing Hank Aaron's 755), signed an estimated $10 million five-year contract to manage the fourth-place Fukuoka Daiei Hawks...
...Fears about possible military-sponsored violence had been eased earlier in the week when former military chief Lieut. General Raoul Cedras and his top deputy, Brigadier General Philippe Biamby, left Haiti for Panama. As part of a deal for his departure, the U.S. put down a $60,000 deposit to rent one of Cedras' luxury villas for at least a year. It refused to pick up the tab for two more residences, including a beach house...
...receive tickets, students need to deposit one coupon (distributed at registration) and $12 at the Harvard Athletic Ticket Office in the basement of Harvard Hall. Students may receive an additional ticket...
...lines. The Interstate Banking and Branching Efficiency Act allows banks for the first time to establish branches anywhere in the country. Up till now, banks have been able to operate across state lines only by forming separate corporate entities for each state. That meant you could not make a deposit outside the state where your account was based, although you could make withdrawals. But soon you should be able to perform any transaction at any branch of your bank, regardless of its location. Analysts expect the new legislation to spur a rash of mergers, ultimately reducing the number of banks...
Perhaps most galling of all are the fees charged account holders who unwittingly deposit bad checks. Thirty-five percent of U.S. banks resorted to such charges in 1991. Today it's up to 85%. USPIRG., which conducted the study, says that besides being stuck with bum checks, victims are paying on average a $5.29 fee to their bank for the privilege of being stiffed...