Word: cards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Quincy House will soon become the latest undergraduate house to abandon metal keys for plastic card keys. And residents have mixed feelings about the new technology...
That doesn't seem like much, but it's a level not seen since the last speculative bubble burst, in 1987. And it's still growing, almost exponentially, rising faster than credit-card or mortgage debt. "We've had an expansion of margin debt the likes of which haven't been seen since the 1920s," says Tom Schlesinger, executive director of Financial Markets Center, a research institute...
...months after the Oklahoma City bombing, 182 adult survivors agreed to fill out the psychological equivalent of an organ donor card, donating their traumas to science so that psychologists, counselors and other head-shrinkers might use the U.S.?s biggest domestic tragedy in ages to someone?sadvantage. Almost four years later, the results are in, published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association - and as one might imagine, not many got out unscarred. Out of the 182 studied, 45 percent suffered illnesses that needed psychiatric care, including chronic depression and drug and alcohol problems. One out of every...
...your PC; the PC Home Theater is just supposed to simplify the process through its onscreen "remote control" and by using that handy USB port. Yet I found the system klugey. For instance, I have a TV tuner in my PC, but since the Yamaha device bypasses the sound card the tuner resides on, the TV system doesn't work. A spokesman said I could fix the problem with the right adapters--but I had to buy them separately. Finally, the device supports only one set of speakers, which means you can forget quadraphonic. I ended up not using...
...selling confidential data on celebrities. BRUCE WILLIS, CALISTA FLOCKHART, JOHN and PATSY RAMSEY and even the Columbine victims were marks for the couple's Touch Tone Information Acquisition, based in suburban Denver. The Rapps, according to authorities, assumed a variety of false identities to filch bank, phone, credit-card and stock-transaction records. Now investigators are seeking to zero in on the end users of the information, who are believed to be news media, prominent among them the Globe and the National Enquirer, as well as banks, insurance companies and collection agencies. "The Rapps were passing on tons of stuff...