Word: laisser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...form the Palestine Liberation Organization, a kind of shadow government headed by Yasser Arafat. But they have little else. Israelis maintain that, as former Premier Golda Meir once put it, "there is no such thing as a Palestinian." Many of them carry no more proof of citizenship than the laisser-passer that have been issued to residents of the refugee camps supported by the United Nations but actually governed by the P.L.O. Still, they endure. Says Palestinian Writer Raymonde Tawil: '"We are like grass. The more you cut it, the more it will grow...
Americans currently use some 200 million credit cards, those convenient laisser-passers of an increasingly demonetized society. But what about the cash customer - is he getting an even break? In a suit filed in U.S. district court in Washington last week, the Consumers Union maintained that he is being shortchanged. Naming the American Express Co. and a member bank of the BankAmericard system, C.U. charged that credit-card companies are in effect guilty of price fixing...