Word: cards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...need to get an Ethernet card to connect to the Harvard network, TPC is your best choice because it carries all the supported cards and is close...
WASHINGTON: It seems Al Gore did do some illegal White House fundraising, after all. New phone records show Gore called 46 people on the White House dime, rather than calling "a couple" on the Clinton-Gore campaign phone card, as he'd previously claimed...
...mean, I probably have more reason to think about this stuff than the average John Q. All Too Public. A few years ago, for instance, after I applied for a credit card at a consumer-electronics store, somebody got hold of my name and vital numbers and used them to get a duplicate card. That somebody ran up a $3,000 bill, but the nice lady from the fraud division of the credit-card company took care of it with steely digital dispatch. (I filed a short report over the phone. I never lost a cent...
...course, is the least of it. After all, most of us voluntarily give out our phone number and address when we allow ourselves to be listed in the White Pages. Most of us go a lot further than that. We register our whereabouts whenever we put a bank card in an ATM machine or drive through an E-Z Pass lane on the highway. We submit to being photographed every day--20 times a day on average if you live or work in New York City--by surveillance cameras. We make public our interests and our purchasing habits every time...
...make a go of it in the movie business in 1995, when they got a call from Brian Graden, then an executive at Fox 2000, who offered them an intriguing project. In search of livelier-than-average holiday greetings, Graden commissioned the pair to make a video Christmas card for him to send to friends and colleagues. The result was The Spirit of Christmas, an animated short film that centered on four crude-acting, blob-shaped third-grade boys forced to intervene in a nasty fistfight between Jesus Christ and Santa Claus. The tape was a smash, passed around...