Word: cards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TIMES ARE tough all over. Used to be any drugged-out freak with a forged press card could peddle a kilo of dope, change his name, and catch the next flight out to the civil war, riot, or acid orgy of his choice...
When Jerry Cosentino talks, Illinois banks listen. The state's new treasurer is determined to force banks to reduce their interest rates for credit cards. Charging close to 20%, he says, is nothing more than "legal loan-sharking." Last week, after the First National Bank of Chicago refused to lower its 19.8% credit-card interest rate, Cosentino indignantly yanked $220 million in state deposits out of accounts at the bank. Said he: "Illinois taxpayers will not help fund this gouging of consumers any longer...
...attendant. "How can you call this a service station?" yelled Harry. He went to the bank to get some emergency cash for a tow truck, only to find the automatic teller machine out of order, again. "Real nice service!" he muttered. Then Harry decided to use a credit card to buy a tool kit at the Cheapo discount store, but he couldn't find anyone to wait on him. "Service! Anyone, please! Help...
...recent Chinese standards, the purge was mild. The two university officials were quickly reassigned to research posts in Peking, and Writer Wang essentially lost nothing more than his party card. "They are trying to have a different kind of purge," explained an East European analyst based in Peking. "They want to keep a balance between shutting off dissent and scaring all intellectuals...
Fearing a court ruling in Miller's favor, Peretz came up with a compromise: he would approve citizenship but mark her identity card JEWISH (CONVERT). That upset not only Miller, who said it would make her a second-class Jew, but also former Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren. He said that reminding a convert of the past was a "reprehensible" violation of religious law. Last month Israel's Supreme Court tossed out Peretz's proposal and ordered that Miller be registered...