At RiteCheck and most other check cashers, in contrast, the fees for each transaction are typically displayed on large illuminated signs that span the row of teller windows, like the menu sign at a fast-food restaurant.
As long as you regulated big marble buildings with rows of tellers, you pretty much had things nailed down.
The mistake was to think "a bank had to look like something Jimmy Stewart could run", with rows of tellers taking deposits in a marble-fronted building.
One of the great things about Diamond-Dybvig is that it immediately punctures any superficial notion that a bank can be defined by some traditional appearance — that it basically has to be a marble building with rows of tellers, i.e. a depository institution.
Economists, of all people, should have been on guard for the fallacy of misplaced concreteness, should have realized that not everything that functions like a bank and creates bank-type systemic risks looks like a traditional bank, a big marble building with rows of tellers.
That member has since moved nearby, where he camps alone in front of a row of automated teller machines.
The looters picked through a Tourneau boutique watch store, raided cases of designer sunglasses in another shop, tried to pry open at least one cash register and penetrated the service room behind a row of Chase automated teller machines, where steel safes appear to have dissuaded them from making off with stacks of cash.
Spirit mediums inhabit the interstices between the old and the new: in one neighbourhood in old Kabul, a row of falbin fortune-tellers sit receiving visitors just outside a modern medical clinic, to serve those who want to cover all bases.
Mr. DiPierro was general manager of Tellers for six years.
These stories, honed through generations of tellers, are the survivors of literary evolution.
