Word: teller
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...novel pivots around Libby Holden (very loosely inspired by Betsey Wright), the Governor's former chief of staff, fresh from the loony bin, who calls herself "the Dustbuster" and sets about to clean up the mess from the candidate's self-destructive personal life. Holden is the classic truth teller--bound to the Stantons, but also sadly clear-eyed about how their youthful idealism had been transformed into chilling cynicism in the pursuit of power...
NEAR THE END OF THE MOOR'S Last Sigh (Pantheon; 434 pages; $25), a madman holds the novel's narrator, Moraes Zogoiby, prisoner. The captor, an old but rejected friend of Zogoiby's late, flamboyant mother, demands a history of her family before killing its teller. "He had made a Scheherazade of me," Moraes writes. "As long as my tale held his interest he would let me live...
...Elkies's work is so secret that he can't even talk about it, according to Swing. But every day, the technology he helped develop touches thousands of people, through the innovations behind automatic teller machines, faxes and other machines...
...automatic teller machine, the U.S. Postal Service stamp machine, the coin-operated copy machine, the credit-card-operated fax machine, the Harvard Student Agencies film developing drop-off box, the sweet shop's candy and the newsstand's periodicals have not yet arrived, but should be in place within the next few weeks, according to Loker officials...
...just read it in their eyes--'Another old guy,'" Jupiter says. "They're thinking, 'You're too old.'" Fortunately, more open-minded businesses are beginning to take a keen interest in the students; four were hired before they could even complete the course. One landed a part-time bank teller's position; three others, including Washington, work as shipboard hosts for a dinner-cruise company. Restaurateur Riese himself foresees taking on several. "But I don't think we can hire all of them," he says. "I certainly hope my competitors will take full advantage...