Word: cards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...HUPD units responded to a report of a stolen ID card being used to gain entry to Winthrop House. It was determined that a student who had reported her ID lost had found it and was using it to get back into her room...
...Tony Rodham's business dealings might benefit from some scrutiny, the same might be said about some of his business associates--like a Georgian wheeler-dealer named Vasili Patarkalishvili. He was the one who thought up the smart-card and hazelnut ventures. Patarkalishvili has had other brushes with controversy. In the early 1990s he opened Liberty Bank, ostensibly to operate in Georgia and the U.S. But in 1994 the Comptroller of the Currency issued a warning that the bank was not authorized to operate on American soil. The bank shut down in the U.S. Now Patarkalishvili and several partners...
...REPORT CARD...
...shades, a Cadillac polo shirt and Marlboro jeans. He smells ruggedly of Chevrolet aftershave. He buys a set of Le Cordon Bleu cookware for his wife and a Jeep radio-CD player for himself. To pay, he flips opens his Harrods leather wallet and whips out a Jaguar Visa card. He's branded to the hilt, and the embodiment of European consumerism for the new millennium...
Readers get tips on attire, business-card customs, entertaining and dining, conversation, gestures and public manners, gift giving, greetings and introductions, punctuality, tipping and so on for each area and all the specific countries therein. This way you'll know not to blow your nose in public in Belgium, where it's considered an offensive gesture. Or not to eat everything on your plate in Taiwan. Knowing the local language is an advantage in getting acquainted with others and being accepted. But if you're not fluent, says Sabath, "one way to successfully conduct business is to become knowledgeable about...