Word: teller
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more for a security-access system. But as with many other electronic gadgets, the cost could come down rapidly. Ecco Industries of Danvers, Mass., hopes to market a $300 voice-recognition security device for consumers next year. Within a few years, biometric security systems may be incorporated into automated-teller machines and employed at checkout counters to verify that a person is not using a stolen credit card. "In time," predicts Joseph Freeman, head of a security market-research and consulting firm in Newtown, Conn., "you'll be able to touch a spot on your steering wheel and start your...
...suspect handed a teller a note that demanded money and claimed he was armed, Lane said. No weapon was seen, he added...
...teller gave $2780 to the man, who escaped on foot, then reported the incident to her superiors, said Lloyd E. Wheeler, financial relations manager and spokesperson for the Bank of Boston...
...years ago, there weren't that many people we could borrow money from," notes Harvard's Jeffrey Sachs, a leading international economist. "We were reluctant to run deficits out of fear of creating sky-high inflation. Now there is a global bank-teller window that is open 24 hours a day, and we've been one of the most frequent customers." Sachs warns, however, that the bender cannot last. "We're faking it," he says. "Our living standard isn't being maintained by higher productivity or wages. It's maintained by foreign capital...
Plus a course in the politics of southern Africa (professor: Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Chester Crocker), a tutorial on neoconservative thought (professor: Irving Kristol of the American Enterprise Institute), and a briefing on the Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars) by Edward Teller, the father of the hydrogen bomb. And all for just one pupil: Vice President J. Danforth Quayle...