Word: depositer
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...life is a series of promises, threats and bargains; in those games it sometimes pays to sacrifice your self-interest and control. An eco-protester who handcuffs himself to a tree guarantees that his threat to impede the logger is credible. The prospective home buyer who makes an unrecoverable deposit guarantees that her promise to buy the house is credible. And suitors who are uncontrollably smitten are in effect guaranteeing that their pledge of love is credible...
However, Harvard officials notified all Crimson Cash account holders on Monday afternoon of the breach and suggested that they review their accounts for suspicious activities. Crimson Cash is a service that allows Harvard affiliates to deposit money onto their IDs and use them to buy food, textbooks, and other items...
...Within days, overflow crowds were lining up in the snow to hear Edwards and pulling down his posters to be autographed after he had finished speaking. "They were handing up anything that could be signed-napkins, envelopes. Here's the back of my deposit slip, sign that," his wife Elizabeth wrote in her memoir. Bill Clinton's old strategist James Carville marveled at the time that it was the best stump speech he had ever heard. On Salon, Peter Dizikes predicted, "Before too long, the Edwards speech could be like a museum exhibit that political tourists flock to see before...
...current focus--what's becoming known as the Paulson Plan, although it was first floated in October by Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. chair Sheila Bair--is an effort to get lenders and loan servicers to freeze interest rates on some of the 2 million subprime mortgage loans that are due for sharply upward rate resets in the next two years. Paulson has said the five-year freeze would apply to borrowers "with steady incomes and relatively clean payment histories who could afford the lower introductory mortgage rate but cannot afford the higher adjusted rate...
...major bank uses NuTech software to examine millions of customers' deposit and withdrawal habits, complaint records, bounced checks and even the number of telemarketing calls they have received. The software predicts which customers are disgruntled and likely to take their business elsewhere. The bank then calls to say "We'd like to make things better...