Word: credited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from Detroit who called himself "the Chairman." Moore was paroled from Minnesota's Sandstone federal prison in 1986 after serving four years of an eleven-year term for fraud. In 1982 he created a Chicago "bank," actually a telephone answering service, and issued himself letters of personal credit. So convincing were these documents that ten air- charter companies leased planes to Moore, who used them to take off on cross- country shopping sprees. By the time he was caught, he owed $180,000 to the charter firms...
Since a Mother's Day fire destroyed a major Illinois Bell switching station west of Chicago, 35,000 people have learned how inconvenient and nearly unmanageable modern life can be without phones. Fax machines went down. Credit-card verification systems blinked out. Automatic cash machines popped up electronic apologies: OUT OF SERVICE. Houses were not sold, dental appointments not made, pizza not ordered...
...free-spending Western-style consumers, Michael Jackson can. Or at least PepsiCo seems to think so. Last week the performer pirouetted his way onto Soviet TV in Pepsi commercials featuring slogans like "The new generation chooses Pepsi" that were superimposed in Russian. The ads, along with commercials for Visa credit cards and Sony TV sets, appeared in a series of talk shows with Soviet Commentator Vladimir Posner as host. He interviewed Americans in Seattle on subjects ranging from sex to presidential politics. The ads marked the first time that companies have been allowed to buy time on Soviet...
...been delighted by the numerous future references to this unfortunate streak, but somehow I always wanted to claim credit for its discovery. Now I have...
...bill, affecting discrimination in housing, employment, credit and public accommodations, passed the House and won a majority in the Senate last year. But before the measure could get a final Senate vote, it was sent to a committee headed by opponent Sen. Arthur Lewis (D-Boston), who refused to release the bill...