Word: teller
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...over Europe. To paint commonplace models in tavern settings or caves of gloom, to infuse biblical subjects with an exacting realism and directness, to drive the mincing preciosity of late mannerism out of art-such were the aims of French Caravaggisti like Valentin de Boulogne (1591-1632), whose Fortune Teller raises narrative to a pitch of ironic theater worthy of Caravaggio himself. It is a raffish image of tavern survival: the old circular comedy, as the gypsy woman bilks a credulous soldier while a man steals her chicken and a little girl lifts the thief's purse...
Only Edward Teller and Michael Novak address the real issue and cause of the arms race, namely the Soviets' armed superiority and their willingness to use it if they assess their chances as favorable...
...allowance, depending on the size of the average balance in his account. If the amount is $1,000, for example, the credit is about $11. The customer incurs a charge against that credit when he uses the bank. Writing a check costs 30?, and a withdrawal from an automatic teller machine is 10?. For a bounced check, the bank demands a daunting $30. If the customer's monthly charges exceed his credit, he pays the difference as a service fee. If, on the other hand, he does not use his account too often, he pays no service charge...
...EDWARD TELLER, "father" of the hydrogen bomb and a Reagan Administration science adviser: I hope [the nuclear-freeze movement] will not become an important force. I hope more sense will prevail. If the nuclear freeze goes through, this country won't exist in 1990. The Soviet Union is a country that has had totalitarian rule for many hundreds of years, and what a relatively small ruling class there might do can be very different from what a democratic country can decide to do. The rulers in the Kremlin are as eager as Hitler was to get power over...
That makes the outlook doubly grim for retailers. Third-quarter profits for some of them were way down because of the accelerating economic slide. Los Angeles-based Carter Hawley Hale Stores, for example, showed an earnings slump of 35%, and profits at Allied Stores, which owns Bonwit Teller, declined 36%. These and other retailers look to Christmas for 25% of their annual sales and 35%, even 45%, of their yearly earnings...