Word: credits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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IMAGINE you go to the Coop this afternoon to buy a textbook. When you give the clerk your credit card, he suddenly calls Harvard Book Store and Wordsworth to ask about your credit limit...
...York City's Dial-A-Dinner. Its clients order by telephone from the menu of one of the 30 restaurants on its list. About an hour later, a tuxedo-clad waiter appears, bearing large shopping bags full of plastic containers and a bill -- usually well over $100 -- payable by credit card. "I'm known as the doctor of delivery," declares David Blum, 31, the entrepreneur who started Dial-A-Dinner 18 months ago. Now he has 22 people, 15 cars and six vans, all radio equipped, hurtling about 200 dinners a night across Manhattan. Among Blum's culinary suppliers...
...rivalry in the U.S. market, General Motors' Oldsmobile division said last week that it would adopt a novel guarantee: Oldsmobile will allow buyers of its new cars who are dissatisfied for any reason to return the autos within 30 days (or 1,500 miles) for full credit on a different Olds...
...came to Harvard to learn about partying, there's good news at hand. Now, you can get credit for it--by taking Anthropology 95, "Romance, Consumerism and Alienation: Explorations in American College Culture...
...credit, Fukuyama is grappling with important and difficult ideas. But his boldness misfires. To ruminate about "the end of history" in the present tense is the philosophical equivalent of that cheerful banality "Today is the first day of the rest of your life." Fukuyama is not really addressing the subject of history at all. He is looking through the wrong end of the telescope at current events, at a period barely twice his age (he is 36). Whether it is dead, dying or merely having a bad decade, Communism, in the sense that Fukuyama and almost everyone else thinks about...