Word: teller
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...gets going when he and a rodeo cowboy named George Birdwell both try, by storyteller's coincidence, to rob the Earlsboro, Oklahoma, bank at the same time. Meeting cute is what Hollywood calls this: "'Sir, I was here first -- had my gun out before you even got to the teller's window,' the cowboy pointed out. 'That was 'cause I was polite and held the door for you,' Charley reminded...
Nearby, Jesus, a 31-year-old bank teller, shelters himself from the storm beneath the facade of Old Havana's Almacenes Lux department store. The Lux is filled with busy people buying soap from Mexico, soda from Venezuela, baby strollers from Europe, and shoes, clothes and neon-color backpacks, some made in the U.S. The buyers are Cubans with dollars, but Jesus has none. He lacks relatives in America and does not work in a dollar-paying job. Is he bothered by his deprivation? He shrugs. "It's in the nature of the poor to covet what the rich have...
Mario Jefferson, celebrated earlier in the week for apprehending the man suspected of attacking civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks, is himself a criminal, according to the FBI. He is charged with taking part in a scheme to steal $65,000 from a bank automatic-teller machine in 1991. The feds recognized Jefferson, 27, in a television interview...
Maryellen Gordon is still fumbling. When the Manhattan freelance writer opened a checking account at Manufacturers Hanover bank six years ago, she could keep as small a balance as she liked for a fee of just $5 a month, and there was no charge for using the automated teller machines. Then Manufacturers Hanover merged with Chemical Bank in 1992, after which Gordon had to keep at least $3,000 in the bank to avoid being charged each time she used the ATM system. Enough was enough. Earlier this year she took her money to a credit union where...
Automated teller machines have been particularly lucrative. ATMS were once touted as free high-tech conveniences, but a joint study by the Consumer Federation and uspirg found that customers now pay 95 cents on average each time they use a local ATM system and $1.10 for each use of a national network. And because ATMS require neither salaries nor benefits, most of those fees flow straight to the bottom line; another Consumer Federation survey estimated that banks typically reap 78 cents in profit for every $1 they charge to use the machines. Some go so far as to levy...