Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From his home in Mill Valley, Calif., anytime between 6 a.m. and 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...
...darkness -- as dark as a minute to midnight on the first day of creation, as dark as a movie house just before the feature starts. Then the movement begins, a tracking shot down the birth canal of a hallway, toward the mystery. Suddenly, light! A bright room filled with old men in beards and black hats: sages, perhaps, from another world. At the far end of the room, on a raised platform, is a blazing red light. The senses are suffused; the mystery deepens. There is only one persuasive explanation for this scene. It must be from a Steven Spielberg...
...whole family! But upon arriving at the door some late Sunday night, you will find that the bulkie rolls have been locked away, and the doors are closed. Further, you'll notice that the signs on the door say they are open from 8 a.m. until 12 midnight...
...unidentified stole stole the coins inside a Mather House candy machine last Friday between midnight and 7 a.m. No candy was taken, according to the blotter...
TIME Correspondent John Borrell was finishing his dinner around midnight in the luxurious Summerland hotel just south of Beirut when a large, bedraggled group arrived for a late supper. Borrell did a double take: here were 32 hostages who had been roused from their beds Friday night for what was intended to be a farewell meal. Borrell, the only reporter in the restaurant when the hostages arrived, sent this account...