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Bank ATMs and ATM surcharges.
FRBSF Economic Letter
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December 16, 2005|
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The automated teller machine (ATM) has become a part of everyday life. According to Dove Consulting (2004), there are approximately 371,000 ATMs in the United States that process 30 million transactions per day. Concurrent with the growing deployment of ATMs has been significant variation in the price of ATM services. In particular, the surcharge fee paid by consumers using an ATM that does not belong to their bank increased from zero in 1996 to an average of roughly $1.50 in 2003. These price increases have been met with opposition from community groups who argue that the ...
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Carnegie Museum of Art plays up mezzotints
Newspaper article from: Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
; ...role of mezzotints in gossip, decoration and collecting. Invented by a German amateur printmaker by the name of Ludwig von Siegen in the 17th century, mezzotints were an offshoot of the intaglio printing process whereby half-tones, which were...
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art from russia's two capitals, THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES
Newspaper article from: The St. Petersburg Times (Russia)
; ...exciting as they are executed in the rare mezzotint technique - an engraving technique invented by amateur German artist Ludwig von Siegen in the 17th century. Another set, this one from the Fine Art Gallery, partly fills the void created by the absence...
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Glimpses of Stuart Britain in Prints
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...Brussels, he was initiated into the secret of the mezzotint, a technique invented in 1642 by a German soldier, Ludwig von Siegen, who did not exploit it. ''The Little Executioner,'' the portrait of a man dated 1662, inspired by a portrait...
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Touch of the Master In the Early Amateur
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...with the frenchified Stefano della Bella. Engraving was Prince Rupert's other passion. When a German officer, Ludwig von Siegen, whom Rupert met in Brussels in 1654, demonstrated the principle of mezzotint that he had invented, the prince...
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Exhibit showcases steel mills' heyday
Newspaper article from: Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
; ...deep blacks and rich tonalities capable with the process. Invented by a German amateur printmaker by the name of Ludwig von Siegen in the 17th century, mezzotints were an offshoot of the intaglio printing process whereby half-tones, which normally...
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Akira Kurosawa und seine Zeit
Magazine article from: Film - Dienst
; ...und seine Zeit Hrsg. von Nicola Glaubitz, Transcript...und Westen. Sein Oeuvre von 30 Spielfilmen bietet...Tagung an der Universitt Siegen im November 2003 ermglichte...wissenschaftlichen Sprachebene. Nicht von ungefhr heit es bereits...Kontextualisierung". K. Ludwig Pfeiffers Aufsatz ...
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