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Word: cards (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gold card for 21 years now, and am thus something of a student of American Express. I watched in amazement as it introduced flight insurance, in admiration as it goosed charge volume by offering to donate money to the Statue of Liberty, in wonder as it offered the platinum card (twice to a friend who was at the same time being dunned for late payments on his green card), and in awe as it offered baggage insurance against the possibility that your tennis racket would wind up in Acapulco more than six hours after you did. (A mere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money Angles: Membership Has Its Follies | 6/19/1989 | See Source »

...attend Cabinet meetings. He banned the import of semiautomatic assault weapons, the firearms of choice of drug lords, only to subsequently refuse to ban domestic manufacturing of such weapons. Of course, Bush's membership in the NRA, which somehow seemed less disconcerting to the electorate than Dukakis being a "card-carrying member" of the ACLU, may have a lot to do with these incongruous and contradictory policies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Calm Amidst A Storm | 6/7/1989 | See Source »

...from the head of circulation services, Edward B. Doctoroff, getting access to the collection is not all that difficult. The process is similar to that for requesting a book from the overflow collection in the New England Depository Library--without the day-long wait. Just fill out a circulation card, hand it to a circulation worker, and soon The Memoirs of an Erotic Bookseller will be in your hands. But you can only keep it until the library closes...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: From Lady Chatterley to Playboy | 6/5/1989 | See Source »

...computer system, which currently consists of a computerized card catalogue and various administrative functions, has changed the way the Harvard libraries are used, though...

Author: By Rebecca L. Walkowitz, | Title: 'Trying to Keep Our Head Above Water' | 6/5/1989 | See Source »

...first, educators praised his genial style; now Education Secretary Lauro Cavazos is being criticized for inaction, lack of focus and political naivete. A TIME report card...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page Vol. 133 No. 22 MAY 29, 1989 | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

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