Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...terminals were set up in department stores and other retail outlets to enable bank customers to pay for their purchases with personal checks that the merchant could quickly verify. Today Citibank has terminals in more than 2,500 retail outlets, 120 of them across the state line in New Jersey, where it is legally forbidden to open a branch (federal law forbids interstate branching). About 60 banks around the country have followed Citibank's lead and established similar systems...
...dramatic example occurred in 1970 when Eatontown National Bank in New Jersey, the victim of a multimillion-dollar embezzlement, was closed by Government order, then invaded by a score of banking agents. When anxious depositors phoned the bank, they heard an operator greet them with "FDIC." Eventually $13.5 million was handed out to 9,904 depositors...
...never really thought wearing No. 22 was very important," the junior defensive back told me yesterday, reminiscing about the old days at Nether Providence High School. "If they hadn't given it to me all through high school, I wouldn't have gone out and bought a jersey and glued the numbers...
...cultism is an intimate knowledge of the rituals of the peerage. Heyer's work is peppered with references to laudelets, phaetons, barques of frailty, diamonds of the first water, and vouchers to Almack's. A careful reader is also likely to be familiar with the origin of Lady Sally Jersey's nickname, the Prince Regent's confused marital status, and Lord Petersham's penchant for mixing snuff. Heyer's research into the lifestyle of the peerage may not have produced great sociological tracts, but she certainly knew what the requisite costume for a nuncheon party was, and why Beau Brummel...
...agents searching a New Jersey dump uncover the body of Rep. Hale Boggs. "All right, who's the wise guy?" says an FBI spokesman. "Now I suppose we'll find Hoffa in Alaska...