Word: teller
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...checks that have cleared. Ask a question about banking services, and the answer will be on the screen the next day. Bills from merchants who join an ever expanding roster provided by the bank can be paid electronically. "It's the next logical step after the automated teller machine," says Richard Kennedy, Citibank vice president of electronic banking. "With ATMs on nearly every corner and PCs in nearly every house, you almost never have to go to the bank again...
Banks closed for three days to prepare for the changes, and when they reopened last Wednesday, many people expected chaos. But while the lines at several banks stretched over blocks, the scenes were orderly. Said one teller at Banco de la Nacion, the country's largest financial institution: "Customers were much calmer than we expected." Concluded President Alfonsin: "We are getting a magnificent response from the people...
...lasers "the one and only proposal that makes any sense." He cautions, however, that the obstacles to developing an actual weapon are "fantastic," and repeated last week his view that SDI threatens "a big new escalation" in the arms race. For good measure, he took a swipe at Edward Teller, his colleague from the World War II atom-bomb project who is now a promoter of Star Wars in general and X-ray lasers in particular. Teller, said Bethe, was the scientist "who brought us the H-bomb with the statement that it will...
...they solve an old problem: how to avoid serious harm while capturing suspects who are a danger more to themselves than to others. The Houston officers who serve commitment warrants on the mentally disturbed use Tasers regularly and gratefully; injuries are down. The XR-5000, says Police Chief Conrad Teller of Southampton, N.Y., "sets them on their fanny nice and quiet. So far as we can see, it's the most humane way to do it." There are police complaints, however. The devices do not always work. Large and aggressive suspects sometimes keep on coming despite being zapped. Lieut. David...
...handful of the 69 closed S and Ls reopened late last week, no new runs started. Generally, customers came in only to get walking-around money. At the Savings One Association in Dresden, a longtime customer deposited $15,000 as a show of support. Said Helen Mershon, a teller at the Southern Ohio Savings Association in St. Bernard: "Some of our customers just came in to say hello...