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...have gained ground rapidly against the long-dominant American Express, partly because of the prominence of the Visa name. This year Visa expects to capture more than 10% of the market worldwide. Moreover, many bankers and merchants think that while MasterCard may carry clout, as its ads used to proclaim, Visa carries class. The name Visa seems to spell easy access, a door-opener around the world. Says one New York banker: "MasterCard is taken more as a card for blue-collar people...
...School, several professors close to the high court, said that, given the Supreme Court's record in sex discrimination cases, it would overturn the Philadelphia decision and proclaim the program constitutional, Others disagreed, however, saying the lower court would be upheld...
...School, several professors close to the high court, said that, given the Supreme Court's record in sex discrimination cases, it would overturn the Philadelphia decision and proclaim the program constitutional, Others disagreed, however, saying the lower court would be upheld...
...when some of Soleri's liberated female workers decided to toil away barebreasted, and "every trucker on Interstate 17 found some reason to stop at Arcosanti." Stories about drugs and skinny-dipping in nearby Lynx Lake upset the many religious fundamentalists in a state where billboards proclaim that "the wages of sin is death...
Despite his dynastic pretensions, the Shah was not to the monarchy born. His commoner father Reza Khan, a hot-tempered colonel in the Persian Cossack cavalry, seized power in a bloodless coup in 1921. He forced parliament to dissolve the decadent, 129-year-old Qajar dynasty in 1925 and proclaim him Shah. He took Pahlavi-an ancient Persian language -as his dynastic name. Following his coronation, his first-born son Mohammed Reza, then seven, was designated crown prince. The elder Shah paraded the child around in gold-encrusted uniforms, groomed him in sports and, when he was twelve, packed...