Word: cards
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Government and private snoops also have easy access to the records in credit bureaus and credit card companies on the income, job history, shopping habits, travel and entertainment expenditures of more than 100 million Americans. Even the most elaborate safeguards cannot prevent unauthorized snoops from getting at the information. Last year TRW Credit Data discovered that a ring of criminals, for fees of $600 to $1,000, was cleaning up bad credit records stored by TRW's computer...
Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev made his first trip abroad last week since he jostled Nikolai Podgorny out of the Soviet presidency (TIME, June 6) and added that largely honorary title to his other calling-card credits. On a three-day visit to France, Brezhnev frequently behaved less like a President than like an emperor...
...abroad have been widely criticized, its more basic function of supplying reliable intelligence has been faulty too. TIME'S Talbott and Nelan asked top officials in the White House, State Department and Defense Department who regularly receive CIA analyses to grade the agency's work. The report card...
...great bursar's card fiasco, the Office of Fiscal/Services issued picture-less cards, and then discovered the magnetic tape that was supposed to be a fool-proof identification wouldn't go through the machines the library system used to check out books...
...economy aside, Jimmy Carter certainly bought home an outstanding report card for the spring semester of his freshman year. For "staying close to the people," he was given a 93% rating by those who expressed an opinion; for "providing moral leadership," 88%; for improving relations with the nation's friends and allies, 83%; for restoring Americans' pride in themselves, 80% (see chart page...