Word: number
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some banks try to trick their customers. "Look at this!" he'll occasionally shout at me over the phone, as if I could see the checks he's waving. "They look just like regular checks! They've got my name and address preprinted on them, and my account number in magnetic ink at the bottom...
...they come from the bank that issues my credit card, and it's my credit card account number at the bottom of the check...
...older jets but the airlines are expanding their fleets with new, technically complicated planes. The ATA report, based on a survey of 21 major airlines, found that carriers have been unable to find mechanics for 4,000 vacancies out of a total of 69,000 positions. More troubling, the number of applicants for mechanic's positions is declining...
...chief strategist for the investment firm Cowen & Co.: "All the Dow can do now is put the lipstick on." The allure of stocks is broadening rapidly as more and more investors join the stampede, which is demonstrated by the big increase in the market's volume. The average daily number of shares traded on the N.Y.S.E. was about 200 million last week, in contrast to a daily average of less than 170 million so far this year. "In August, when many traders are away, this is very unusual," notes Shearson technical analyst Philip Roth...
Although colleges in general have a lackluster record of attracting and holding minorities, a number of programs are starting to chip away at the problem. In some areas, college-public school partnerships seek to get minority students thinking about higher education at an early age and to nurture that goal through high school. "Once kids have the fever for college, you can do a lot of good," says Nathan Potts, principal of West Side High School in Newark, which was "adopted" by Ramapo College of New Jersey...