Word: cards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...1/2-oz. bottle, or $30 a case. "They lined up around the block," he said. "It's the most amazing thing I've ever seen in my life." One customer: Rock Singer Al Stewart (Time Passages), who called from London and put five cases on his American Express card...
...plastic credit cards that millions of people use every day have at least one feature in common: in technological terms, they are all dumb. Soon, however, many people will be carrying "smart" cards equipped with tiny electronic brains similar to those now found in everything from cars to computers. French scientists have developed a card containing a microchip that can store at least 100 times as much data as the magnetic strips on standard charge plates...
...Post, would arrive home "in jeans and a sweatshirt covered with soot and glue, too tired to change clothes." Shalel Way, a friend in Skowhegan, told the Post that Barbara would complain, "Johnny Walker did this to me." She shared her secret with Way, even asking for a Tarot card reading to help her decide whether to tell the FBI. She claimed that John would get drunk, call her on the phone and brag about helping the Soviets. "Johnny Walker is a traitor to his country," Way quoted Barbara as saying. "I'm really going to get him for this...
They had, they said, first been introduced to Mengele in 1970 through an Austrian engineer, Wolfgang Gerhard. Five years later, Gerhard left Brazil, giving Mengele his Brazilian identity card. Mengele put his own photographs on the document and assumed Gerhard's identity. The real Gerhard died in 1978, according to West German legal authorities...
...childless couple in Los Angeles with a combined salary of $82,000 and rental income of $10,400 from an apartment they own. They use the long tax form because of their many deductions. They pay $32,684 in interest on their house, two cars, personal loans, credit-card accounts and the rental property. The couple pays $4,952 in state and local taxes...