Word: carding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Since the announcement of normalization between Washington and Peking, there has been much talk in the U.S. of "playing the China card" and presumably some Chinese hope to play the American card. What do you think of such concepts, and what is the probable future of Soviet relations with China...
...soared from $75 million to $3.4 billion, and profits hit $262 million. Growth has continued under new Chairman Robinson, the workaholic scion of an Atlanta banking family and protégé of Family Friend Clark. But Amexco has largely saturated the market for high-income holders of credit cards, and competitor Visa and some major banks are also trying to sell their own traveler's checks. Earnings from Fireman's Fund Insurance Co., acquired by Amexco in 1968, are large (48% of the company's profits) but cyclical. Amexco stands to get a much higher profit...
...wealth lead to freedom that is the stuff of fantasy, and fantasy-fiction: "He could be a welcome guest anywhere across the continent. He could host a dozen luncheons. He could summon a harem of women, fly to Haiti or Honolulu or Honduras at the flash of a credit card." West's people may converse in bromides ("Let me put it this way," one observes. "It's lonely at the top"), but they get them wrong often enough to sustain suspense: "Men get drunk in high places. Sometimes they get illusions of grandeur...
...most immediate benefits of our new relationship with the PRC may be a stabilization of the global balance of power. While some will argue that Carter has played the China "trump card" too early in the game, improved communication with Asia's greatest power can only ease the tension in the delicate game of superpower diplomacy. The United States can only gain by maintaining "detente" with both Russia and China...
...brawny contractor's Dr.-Jekyll-and-Mr.-Hyde past. His friends and neighbors knew him as a kind, gregarious man who would bring them baskets of fruit as presents, shovel their walks unasked, throw enormous backyard parties for hundreds of friends. The papers ran blow-ups of a card identifying him as a Democratic precinct captain, accolades from fellow Jaycee club members and testimonials from friends who had benefited from Gacy's generosity...