Word: teller
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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McColl's conquests have enriched the shareholders of NationsBank and the banks it has bought--shareholders that include many bank employees, from tellers to vice presidents. But the growing profits of NationsBank and other expansionist lenders have come in part from new and higher fees charged customers, shuttered branch offices and a decrease in traditional services at teller windows and by telephone. How long can any business keep increasing profits if many of its customers feel neglected? One answer can be found in a state that McColl has targeted for expansion: California. There, Wells Fargo, after its hostile 1996 acquisition...
...than journalism has yet been able to provide: that of course the better angels of Clinton's nature are in bed with his devils, that each side requires the other, that his political gifts can't be separated from his personal flaws. Idealist and cynic, moralist and seducer, truth teller and liar, misty-eyed romantic and gimlet-eyed backstabber--it's all one package. Maybe the right leader for now is the one who will stop at nothing, the one who can be absolutely sincere while lying through his teeth...
...indeed. Just one day after the asteroid slammed into the media maelstron, the ripple effect was astonishing. John Walvoord, chancellor of the Dallas Theological Seminary, said the asteroid ?may be a foreshadowing of the second coming of Christ.? Dr. Edward Teller, the father of the H-bomb, advocated planting a nuclear device on its rocky surface. And -- surprise, surprise -- Marsden himself smiled meekly from the front page of Friday?s New York Times. Which could go a long way toward answering Don Yeomans? question...
...inhabitants of a Los Angeles apartment complex, captivating its audience with racy plots from murder to adultery. While some consider "Melrose" to be "trashy," others, like Michelle L. Murphy '99, appreciate the show's incredibility. Murphy, who watches weekly with roommates Karrine M. Jervis '99, Terri A. Teller '99, and Rhea C. MacDonald '99, comments, "`Melrose Place' is the best nighttime drama because it is escape TV. `Beverly Hills 90210' and `Party of Five' try to be `real life' and fail...
...virus rocketed to the farthest points of the globe. From September 1918 through March 1919, it killed 33,387 people in New York City, just over 1% of the city's population. In some Alaskan villages, the death toll topped 50%; in one, Teller Mission (now Brevig Mission), 85% were dead within a week...