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...Iceland and soccer matches in Spain. Customers in Singapore can apply for a car title. In the U.S., Wells Fargo has installed 1,100 souped-up ATMs in 16 Western states that can show movie trailers and the MSNBC news ticker, run streaming-video ads during transactions and spit out coupons before the customer can get away. Bank of America, Fleet and Citibank are also migrating their ATMs...
...actor-producer in a decade when that meant a lot, at first had no thought of appearing in the film. Then, during one casting conference, he said, "What about me?" He, like Curtis and Odets, was a New York boy; Manhattan had been his boot camp, and the dialogue - spit with verbs - "came out of his mouth," Buford writes, "like his own words punched black and blue." He was also the producer and, according to Curtis "wanted to direct that movie." He challenged Mackendrick during the shooting and planned to fire him before the film was edited. Nobody could agree...
...That spit-and-polish soldier in uniform behind the desk at the Army recruiting office may soon be a thing of the past. To save more of its manpower for important duties closer to the battlefield, the Army in May will begin deploying civilians rather than uniformed soldiers in some of its recruiting stations around the country. Responding to congressional direction, the service will pay two Virginia companies $172 million to staff about 65 of its 1,700 recruiting stations over the next five years with civilians (mostly former noncommissioned officers). Some critics wonder whether youngsters thinking about enlisting will...
MALEVOLENT: (while forcing indentured servants to spit polish his Gucci loafers...
...going to argue with this outcome? Back in 1992 Shunta Belle was on the fast track to nowhere, "hanging around thugs and drug dealers and trying to prove myself to them." Then, as a freshman at Provine High School in Jackson, Miss., she signed up for the spit-and-shine, no-nonsense world of the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps. For the first year, Belle held on to a few of her underachieving civilian comrades. But over the next three years, she picked up new friends, a better attitude and a fresh set of goals to match. "I got serious...