Word: cards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Note: I do not do this or condone it, at any reputable retail site where your name and address are collected along with your credit-card number. The sites that get my business have written privacy policies that assure me that my information remains in-house and confidential...
...keep track of all the user names, passwords and other IDs required in the information age. But more Americans are discovering that it can be costly to lose control of these and other bits of personal data. Incidents of identity fraud are on the rise, with criminals stealing credit-card and Social Security numbers to rack up $750 million in charges in 1997, the General Accounting Office reported last week. The House and Senate are working on bills to stamp out the crime. In the meantime, check your credit report and disclose vital statistics only if absolutely necessary...
...register of the bassoon, as the renowned composer Camille Saint-Saens conspicuously walked out, complaining loudly of the misuse of the instrument. Soon other protests became so loud that the dancers could barely hear their cues. Fights broke out in the audience. Thus Modernism arrived in music, its calling card delivered by the 30-year-old Russian composer Igor Stravinsky...
...Business cards are getting an upgrade for the digital age. Now image-conscious digerati can replace their old paper versions with plastic cards that pop into any CD-ROM drive and play a multimedia presentation. Sold by Digital Card in New York City, the wallet-size CD-ROMs can hold as much as 18 MB of data or 2 1/2 min. of video, and cost $1.50 to $3.50 apiece...
...40th-anniversary convention of the American Association of Retired Persons. Is this what the golden years are supposed to be about? Well, the "retired persons" part of "AARP" has always been a bit of a canard; the 50-year-old Gore will be picking up his own AARP card at the convention, and you know he's not planning to retire anytime soon...