Word: cards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Though he will curtly accept a tip (usually $2 or $3) as his due, the failure to pay homage may cause him to pursue a departing diner, somewhat like a crow cawing at a hapless cat, with elaborate and sarcastic expressions of thanks; if he has seen your credit card, he may personalize the departure-"Thank you, Mr. Bumblebottom" -practically onto the street...
...Twain, whose lecturing is becoming a mild irritant, a wagon train, led by George and Jacob Donner in the winter of 1846-47, became trapped in a fierce snowstorm. Several members of the party died, whereupon the survivors proceeded to cannibalize the dead. Twain, having now discovered the credit-card culture, suggests that this event gave rise to the Donner's Club. Trollope is puzzled. "Is that like Carte Blanche?" Dickens, who has been dozing, starts. "No!" he cackles. "Cartepurses...
City Hall will probably look to Washington no matter what happens in November. Beame still seems to be a gambler betting on an unseen card. He appears to be following the dubious premise that it will be easier to bargain with the President of the U.S. than the presidents of the city unions...
...demonstrate "the personality profile"-or how to experience people we have never met. George settles into a trance to experience a New Jersey housewife who is not in the group but is an acquaintance of Carol's, a sixtyish woman who is. Does the housewife like playing cards? "Yes," says George, clawing the air with both hands for inspiration. He sees a happy card game with a bowl of peanuts on the table. "No," says Carol, "she never plays cards." George gets about 80% of the questions wrong...
Lots of Loans. The FTC'S ruling does not apply to contracts already in effect. Nor does it cover credit-card purchases (consumers are already protected under the Fair Credit Billing Act) or loans that the buyer himself arranges from a third party (an auto loan, say, from a bank). Rather, the regulation is aimed at credit deals set up by the seller -even if the seller only steers the consumer to a certain finance company. That adds up to a lot of business, says the FTC-$122 billion last year alone...