Word: patronizer
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...should be, but too many e-banks have provided customer service that is virtual, as in virtually nonexistent. One ex-patron says he spent 40 minutes on hold every time he called NetBank. Jim Bruene, editor of Online Banking Report, agrees that virtual banks need faster service. "Now you're lucky to get an e-mail response in two days," he says. "At some point, that response at a good wired bank will be in two minutes...
...Henley Royal Regatta was founded in 1836 and has been raced every year since then outside of the two World Wars. The regatta is termed “royal” because it received royal patronage from Prince Albert in 1851 and the ruling monarch has served as patron in the years since...
Over last weekend, timed to the Feast of San Ranieri, Pisa's patron saint, the plaza beneath the tower was reopened to the public. The tower itself will be reopened in the fall--but only to 30 visitors at a time, accompanied by a guide. And no leaning...
...student patron brought the situation to light about a week and a half ago, bringing empty covers from which pages had been torn to the circulation desk...
...White's office has even talked with some who were not so lucky in Clinton's final days, including Michael Milken, the junk-bond pioneer of the high-flying '80s. Milken's patron on the pardon front was Ron Burkle, a generous Democratic donor, but as soon as it became known that Milken, who served nearly two years in prison and paid more than $1 billion in connection with his conviction on six counts of securities fraud, was on the list of potential clemency recipients, loud protests from securities regulators and others apparently doomed the effort. White is presumably trying...