But the Plaza Mayor is certainly not alone in being a teller of stories about the city.
This kind of nonbank banking reaches rapidly into the hinterlands that have never seen a bank branch or even a teller machine.
When he tried to force the deputy speaker's nomination to a formal vote Mr Allister could not persuade another MLA to act as a teller.
In a dingy Manhattan office he would give cash and his contact's account number to a teller, who would make a few notations on a slip of paper.
During her college years, in the early nineteen-seventies, she worked briefly as a teller at a small-town bank, like the ones that make up the bulk of the F.
For example, when given a description of a woman who is concerned about discrimination and asked if she is more likely to be a bank teller or a bank teller who is a feminist activist, people tend to assume she is the latter even though probability laws tell us she is much more likely to be the former.
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If you were a bank teller or a phone operator or a travel agent, you saw many in your profession replaced by ATMs and the Internet.
At various times your True North Group will function as a nurturer, a grounding rod, a truth teller, and a mirror.
Athletes are a superstitious bunch, but consulting a fortune teller might seem a little bit too "ancient Olympics" for many of today's athletes, who put more faith in hi-tech equipment and specialized training regimes.
And one of the challenges in terms of rebuilding our economy is businesses have gotten so efficient that -- when was the last time somebody went to a bank teller instead of using the ATM, or used a travel agent instead of just going online?
Apart from Mr. Billard's melting bonus, a bank teller in British Columbia made national news after she told a local radio station of seeing bills that had melted a on car dashboard on a hot summer day.
"Imagine a bank teller who's working with cash-counting machine in the basement of the bank, " Negrusz said.
Ms. CAROL LAM (Former U.S. Attorney): I'm neither a soothsayer nor a fortune teller, but I expect the Department of Justice will conduct itself as the department always has and as professionally and in the public's interest.
Debit cards have grown in popularity as a way for consumers to pay straight from their bank accounts because it is a free and easy alternative to carrying a check book, and is less hassle than making a stop to get cash from a live teller or ATM.
"Someone who applies for a bank-teller position might also be a customer or potential customer, and we were letting those applications fall into a black hole, " she says.
He is also a moralist, story-teller and preacher with a fervent belief in the transformative, indeed redemptive, power of the inventions he writes about.
Listening and watching the lessons of Shakespeare has made me a better a better story teller and manager.
Like all gossip merchants, Denton fancies himself a truth-teller who relishes flouting the conventions of good taste and privilege.
It confirmed voter suspicion that she is not a reliable truth teller.
While Painter is a gifted story teller, the best one he told me is how he got elected president of his class at West Point.
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Do users really need to wiggle and click their mouse to open an animated door and walk over to a virtual bank teller to check our account balance online?
"Think about this being a member of your family, " says Charles Brunner, a Kansas bank teller who says he is related to Richard III on both sides of his family.
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Theresa Murola, a head bank teller in Clifton, N.
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In 1988, he won substantial damages from The News of the World after it accused him of being out drinking when he was actually at an NHS debate as a Whip and teller.
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Into the chaos, the fumbling in the dark, an order is imposed as people form circles around performers, a troupe of acrobats, jugglers and escape artists, a comedian, a group of musicians, a story-teller... this is trial by public jury: if the performance falls flat, the tricks fail to amuse or the stories to amaze, the crowds move on.
By the time they reunited in 1980, Bard says, his mother, Yolana, had become a wealthy fortune-teller.
It was entertaining and silly, and Psalamanazar sounds like he must have been a mighty fine story teller.
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Next, consider how many branches and automated teller machines a bank has and whether those locations are convenient for you.
In 1958 Edward Teller, a creator of the hydrogen bomb, suggested using nuclear explosions to dig a harbor near Cape Thompson, Alaska.
This stuff may not stand up to scientific experiment, but a clever fortune-teller can make people think that he can see around corners.
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