Word: brandishers
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...privilege against the benefits of more plebeian credit cards. While the AmEx elite shelled out annual fees, Discover clients were issued free cards. Amex users had to pay their bills in full each month; savvy bank-card customers enjoyed revolving credit at modest interest rates. AmEx clients could brandish their cards in 3.7 million upscale establishments worldwide; Visa cards opened 11 million doors, MasterCard 12.3 million. Feeling decidedly underprivileged, 2 million AmEx users cut up their cards between 1991 and 1993 and went in search of better bargains...
...remained firm ever since he first sounded it in 1991: "I say it quite plainly -- when I come to power, there will be a dictatorship." More recently he has added, "You cannot rule by waving a chocolate bar in front of those you're trying to rule. Or brandish only a whip...
...Brandish lifetime N.R.A. memberships...
...devout Hispanic Roman Catholics have spent Good Friday tramping along roads that lead to Chimayo, a sleepy New Mexico village known for the sacred earth upon which the Santuario de Chimayo sits. Many of the pilgrims carry crosses on their journey, but this year they may feel inclined to brandish signs that say TOURISTS GO HOME! The source of their ire: New Mexico's tourism department, which is hyping the local shrine as the "Lourdes of America" in full-page ads in a dozen slick magazines, including Travel & Leisure, Holiday and Southern Living...
...severing its ROTC ties, as the Faculty Council pledged in May 1990. If Harvard and President Rudenstine are opposed to all forms of discrimination against groups protected by Harvard's official nondiscrimination policy, but can make an exception in the case of gay people, by all means, continue to brandish the anti-gay ROTC sword. Remind us gay folks of our second-class status. At least Harvard does not give us gay people a lesser diploma on graduation day, just a few deeply injurious scars. Chad S. Johnson '89 Leverett House Tutor for bisexual gay and lesbian issues Founder, Group...