Search Details

Word: cards (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Jennifer Hess displayed her city-issued domestic partnership card and said she hoped Cambridge would be among the first cities to extend marriage benefits to same-sex couples...

Author: By Michael M. Grynbaum and Jessica R. Rubin-wills, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: City Council Will Not Speed Gay Marriage | 11/25/2003 | See Source »

...idea of using your cell phone as a credit card at a cash register to pay for a burger and fries or a new winter coat is still largely a futuristic notion in the U.S. and Europe. Yet parts of Asia are making serious strides toward mobile finance as a fully functional reality. In Japan, telecom NTT DoCoMo and financial firms Nippon Shinpan and Visa International are rolling out the second test phase of an infrared-enabled payment system, which will include 1,000 merchants and 10,000 consumers. Peddlers of the technology have gained an even greater foothold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paying Up? Put It on Your Phone | 11/24/2003 | See Source »

...House representatives and governors wouldn’t be so bad either. But marketing femininity does not fly in politics. If women are really going to “break through the glass ceiling” (as we like to say) it will not be by playing the gender card. Women should be elected on their political merit—not their chromosomes. I have no doubt that our first female president will be elected in due time, and when she is, she will not have to rely on her sex as a justification for her candidacy...

Author: By Lia C. Larson, | Title: Glass Ceilings and Hypocrisy | 11/21/2003 | See Source »

...Delgado. In the last two months of the season, Ortiz hit 19 homers and drove in 47 RBI. He collected an astounding 16 game-winning hits for the Red Sox, which was in the middle of a heated race, first for the AL East and then for the wild card...

Author: By Brenda Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Love It or Leeve It: A-Rod Shouldn't Have Won | 11/20/2003 | See Source »

...Ph.D. from Harvard and later taught at the University, invented the rainbow hologram, which is now widely used to prevent counterfeiting because of how simple it is to discern a fake hologram. In 1983, MasterCard International became the first company to use these holograms on their cards; today, they are used by every major credit card company...

Author: By Sarah J. Murphy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Holography Pioneer Benton Dies at 61 | 11/18/2003 | See Source »

Previous | 458 | 459 | 460 | 461 | 462 | 463 | 464 | 465 | 466 | 467 | 468 | 469 | 470 | 471 | 472 | 473 | 474 | 475 | 476 | 477 | 478 | Next