Word: pronto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Alas, the system, called Pronto, was too slow in catching on. The bank has advised an estimated 25,000 home-banking subscribers that their accounts will be canceled, as of Jan. 31 for individuals and Feb. 28 for small businesses. The move has jarred the banking industry and raised doubts about the future of all home financial services...
...time he said he would get Gorbachev on the phone and tell him to send a couple of Harvard hockey players participating in a Moscow tournament home pronto...
Harvard jumped ahead in the bottom of the first, as Terrier infielders mangled their first two chances resulting in a pronto pair of runs...
...painting by the famed Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes. Christie's, the London auction house, expects Goya's Marquesa to fetch a record price of more than $10 million when it is auctioned on April 11. But the Spanish government wants it back pronto...
...systems. Robert McDermott, who runs a construction service company, keeps five different accounts at Chemical Bank, including his money-market and retirement funds. "It makes juggling accounts more manageable," he says. "You can be more daring." Kathryn Dallam, a secretary at IBM, rationalizes the $12 monthly cost of her Pronto service, claiming that home banking saves her $20 a month in stamps, envelopes and transportation costs. And Investment Banker Stodder blames himself, not the system, for electronically sending his cleaner $580 instead of the $55 for which he was billed. Says he: "I'm just letting it ride by sending...