Word: carding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...HomeBuyer Express Card is being offered by CompuFund National Mortgage Network in California, Texas and Washington. After customers pass a mortgage- approval process, perhaps in as little as 24 hours, the cards are sent to them by overnight mail...
Upon presenting our Harvard IDs, which now display our birthdates, many seniors were informed by The Links Club management that this card did not constitute proper identification. When our class marshals were appealed to for intervention on our behalf, we were told by Radcliffe Marshal Frances Alice Peale, "You should have known that a Harvard ID card cannot be used outside the University. You always have to show a driver's license at a bar." Frances, as our elected representative, did not at first try to negotiate with The Links Club administration. Instead, she chastised us for our "misguided" assumption...
...chief local patron, New York City Mayor Ed Koch, whose vituperative attacks on Jackson further polluted the city's dense ethnic atmosphere and totally obscured Gore's own image. Local TV cameras repeatedly captured Gore looking bewildered, like a farm boy being fleeced by a Times Square three-card-monte artist, as Koch lashed out at Jackson's shortcomings...
...four-day conference in Moscow in April to talk about prospective joint ventures. In a display of Madison Avenue glitz, council members from the U.S. gave their Soviet counterparts a crash course in marketing that included razzle-dazzle TV commercials for Diet Coke, NutraSweet and the American Express Card. Gorbachev invited the U.S. visitors to the Kremlin's Palace of Congresses for a seven-course feast of caviar, pheasant, grouse and other delicacies. After exchanging toasts with the capitalists, the Soviet leader described perestroika as an "invitation" to a business partnership with the West. Said he: "New thinking should...
...union, on the other hand, has asked employees to sign and turn in a card declaring support for an election to decide the unionization question, with the rider that voting to hold an election is a "moral commitment" to voting to unionize. Then, does the author think that the union organizers are forced to huddle in the smoking lounge, hoping to catch one's attention with a few desperate pleas for a moment of one's time? In my office, the union organizers are considered--and treated--with friendly respect. Organizers come around every few weeks, yes, during work time...