Word: linked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fewer than 1,500 of the nation's 14,223 banks are offering charge cards, compared with about 250 a decade ago. Rather than undergo the expense-and the risk-of introducing their own cards, many banks have lately chosen to link up with existing nationwide card systems. The biggest single beneficiary has been San Francisco's Bank of America, whose thriving (8,100,000 members, $464 million annual billings) BankAmericard is now offered by more than 135 other banks in 32 states. In the past six months, BankAmericard has added some 2,100,000 card holders...
...last week, filling the red clay scars that trenches had cut into the once verdant plateau, burying the hulks of crippled aircraft, Jeeps and trucks. Dust-caked Marines stacked up the aluminum matting that had formed Khe Sanh's 4,000-ft. runway, during the siege, its only link to the outside. Demolition men destroyed bunker after bunker, the single bit of protection against the rain of North Vietnamese steel that had lashed the base for almost half a year and cost its U.S. Marine defenders 199 dead and 1,600 wounded...
Although the unions demand a 9% pay increase as against the railroads' offer of 3%, the heart of the dispute involves a more basic issue. The unions have flatly rejected management's effort to link wage increases to productivity agreements-a step Britain's Labor government calls essential to revive the country's sick economy. Similar labor strife has poisoned industrial relations across the U.K. Most of the jet fleet of British Overseas Airways Corp. lay idle at Heathrow Airport last week because of a strike by 1,050 pilots, who demand that their salaries...
...Marquis de Sade would have liked the leather and chain-link suits. I suppose they come with matching accessories like whips and dog collars...
...that first awful morning last week, many Americans phoned relatives and friends; unable to speak the unspeakable, they just said, "Turn on the television." Thus began a four-day period in which TV and radio attempted to link a distraught country into a comprehending whole. They succeeded to a remarkable degree...