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...names on American Express cards. As a result, Golub says, the number of merchants that accept American Express plastic outside the U.S. "is coming up rapidly." That means the card will be even less exclusive than ever, but Amex has learned that it no longer pays to thumb its nose at the masses...
...mistake: don't forget to buckle up! Change your oil, you sleepyhead! The illusions--of power, of anonymity, of self-containment--pile up. You are the master of your domain. Actually driving the car is the last thing you need to worry about. So you can pick your nose, break wind, fantasize to your heart's content. Who's to know...
MOHAMMED MOSSADEGH 1951 Thumbing Iran's nose at the great powers...
...dorms eight months of the year, our bathrooms should more closely resemble those in our homes than those at the Port Authority Bus Terminal. The one-ply paper currently provided is thin enough to see through and so coarse that I wouldn't use it to blow my nose...
...solution that works." Advocating neither censorship nor license--and perhaps mindful of a recent New Yorker piece that claimed President Clinton is worried that Gore will fumble the New Democrat legacy--the V.P. suggested that the industry find "a third way, an American way." No skin off anyone's nose there...