Word: francos
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...inventor Ed Kelley suddenly discovered that his telephone calling card had been canceled?the number had been stolen and used for exorbitant calls to Central America and Asia?he decided he'd had enough. To put an end to swiped identities and pilfered credit cards, he and IBM engineer Franco Motika set about developing a new generation of smart cards. The recently patented, theftproof card contains a computer chip and features a tiny numerical keypad right on its face. The cardholder inputs a PIN, stored directly in the card's circuitry; the same code must be entered before each...
...Kelley suddenly discovered that his telephone calling card had been canceled - the number had been stolen and used for exorbitantly priced calls to Central America and Asia - he decided he'd had enough. To put an end to swiped identities and pilfered credit cards, he and IBM engineer Franco Motika set about developing a new generation of smart cards. The recently patented, theftproof card contains a computer chip and features a tiny numerical keypad right on its face. The cardholder inputs a PIN, stored directly in the card's circuitry; the same code must be entered before each...
...would stump up several billion dollars to rescue debt-ridden Mitsubishi. Investors sighed with relief: DaimlerChrysler stock shot up over 7% on the announcement. A global turnaround? Not yet. Speed limits vary. - By Adam Smith Hard To Swallow Swiss drugmaker Novartis accepted an invitation for merger talks from Franco-German Aventis. A deal won't be easy: the French government is against foreign ownership of Aventis, favoring the hostile €46 billion bid from its own Sanofi-Synthélabo...
...heedless spending though. Lynn Franco, director of the Consumer Research Center at the Conference Board, an economic-research group that closely tracks consumer confidence, notes that the TV upgrades are typical of a purge-and-splurge shopping style that has emerged in the age of big-box discounters. "Consumers will trade up and buy down at the same time," Franco says. "They'll shop at Wal-Mart and buy a Lexus." With their relentless discount shopping and the occasional affordable luxury, consumers have kept the economic recovery going...
...inventor Ed Kelley suddenly discovered that his telephone calling card had been canceled--the number had been stolen and used for exorbitant calls to Central America and Asia--he decided he'd had enough. To put an end to swiped identities and pilfered credit cards, he and IBM engineer Franco Motika set about developing a new generation of smart cards. The recently patented, theftproof card contains a computer chip and features a tiny numerical keypad right on its face. The cardholder inputs a PIN, stored directly in the card's circuitry; the same code must be entered before each...