Word: cards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ticketing, or electronic ticketing, is "much easier" than purchasing tickets over the telephone, according to a United Airlines representative who asked to remain anonymous. According to the representative, E-tickets have become the "preferred method of ticketing" because all one needs is a destination in mind, a credit card in hand and a computer at your fingertips. To purchase an E-ticket, a customer logs onto an on-line reservation service, selects the departure city, destination city and date of travel and then types his or her credit card number onto an encrypted web page. The E-ticket becomes reserved...
Different airlines have different policiesabout picking up the E-ticket. United Airlinesrequires its customers to bring in photoidentification, an E-ticket confirmation numberand the credit card used to purchase the tickets.USAir and Delta are more lenient, requiring onlythat the customer bring in a picture ID. Since airtravel out of any U.S. Airport now requires validID for individuals over the age of 18, a traveleris not being asked to bring any extraneous itemsto pick up the E-ticket. United Airlines' policymight seem like a big hassle at first glance, too,but one representative, who spoke on condition ofanonymity, says ticketing agents...
Whoever took the papers certainly knew his way around. To gain access to Albright's suite, the perpetrator had to have a State Department identification card and either pass by a security guard or use a special magnetic swipe card to enter the secure area. He also had to contend with video-surveillance cameras, which have apparently furnished few clues about his identity...
...Dubinsky spent 18 fruitless months trying to convince venture capitalists and potential manufacturers that the key to selling handheld computers was simplifying them, not adding features. "Time after time, I'd go into meetings, and they'd say, 'You can't do a device like this without a PC card slot or a spreadsheet or whatever,'" she recalls. "But where was the evidence? It's very, very hard to go against the crowd...
...moviegoers. Studio surveys indicated that only 3% had read the book and that audiences rarely mentioned the Clinton connection even when they'd seen the film. At an early screening in Seattle less than 1% noted similarities to scandals in the White House. Says Nichols: "There was one card that read, 'Hilarious, thought-provoking, touching. Reminds me of the Clintons.'" Yet when virtually the same cut was screened post-Monica, the audience approval rating shot up 10 points. Even Nichols felt he was watching a different film. "The whole thing shifted and deepened...