Renewal for my safe deposit box is up again this month with Union Bank. The bank decided to add a fee of $15 to our annual $85 safe deposit box fee because we do not have a checking account with that bank. I have all my bank accounts with a wonderful credit union, called […]
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The following is an edited version of actual correspondence. SC: I ran into Dr. T. I described to him, as I could best describe how you told me the way you perform in your classroom, not having viewed your “performance” but just what I could remember from your telling me, and passed out but a
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Our neighbors across the street called me in February, 2009 to tell me they were dissatisfied with a new bottle of wine. The husband refused to drink it. I was asked if I might want to try as the bottle was only a half glass shy of full. I said yes thinking that at the
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Watching Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the United States Federal Reserve, testify before a congressional committee, February 10, 2009, the proceedings raised some concern as to the mechanics of conducting the meeting. Each committee member is allowed to ask questions within a set amount of time, I believe 5 minutes. Just
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We received a written complaint that Chicks On The Square, in Macom, Illinois, allegedly might be practicing racial discrimination in treating customers that walk into its establishment. Here is part of the complaint: “When we entered Chick’s at about 1:00 p.m., no one was ahead of us, and the establishment was not busy. Two employees
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Quite a few years back I found myself being a juror in a case (Riverside, California) where some alleged juvenile gang members shot up a neighborhood (Lake Elsinore). No one was injured. The gang members were after a young man who did not fit into their group. From my point of view, the trial was
