Word: teller
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...frantic rush into funds has naturally caught the eye of politicians and regulators in Washington. Henry Gonzalez, the Texan who chairs the House Banking Committee, last month submitted a bill that would require banks to sell funds in areas separate from teller windows; Gonzalez also wants banks to require customers to sign a statement that they understand that mutual funds are not insured, thereby lending the force of law to federal guidelines already on the books. Representative Edward Markey, who chairs the finance panel of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, is preparing a bill to tighten standards on mutual...
...fallen into dispute. After expressly voting to suspend the by-laws in order to include absentee ballots in the election, these ballots were arbitrarily nullified in the run-off election. And these ballots made the difference in the final tally. Weeks after the issue was raised by a vote teller, the Council finally voted--they voted to do nothing at all. It is a sad commentary when the council cannot even handle elections properly--something they should know a bit about...
Reyes' "designated teller," an impartial observer of the ballot counting to which each candidate is entitled according to last spring's constitution, was his roommate, Robert R. Zamacona...
Zamacona, who is Reyes' roommate, had been appointed "vote-teller" for the election...
...kept listening. Faith and persistence may not cash out in Webb's best songs -- he is better writing about dreams lost and remembered than dreams come true -- but real life, for once, is a little more favorably inclined. Suspending Disbelief is an important record of an important American tale teller, our best raveler of the blind spots of the heart...