Word: punched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...morning bagel and decaf with a smart card designed by Britain's Mondex and being tested in the U.S. with partners that include Wells Fargo and AT&T. As other customers fumble with change, Baptiste hands her card to a cashier who takes less than five seconds to punch it into a machine that deducts $2.15 from the stored-up funds. "This is the beginning of the end of cash," Baptiste says. Unless banks charge swiftly into the E-money era, it could be the end of many of them...
...reminisced humorously about her days rowing for Radcliffe lightweight crew, recalling how the team lifted Hawaiian Punch cans filled with concrete instead of the more conventional weights used by the men's teams...
...million people evacuated from coastal areas as Hurricane Fran swirled toward landfall on 115 mph winds. "Fran is a large and brutal storm, and she is not to be trifled with in any shape, way, fashion or form," said Beasley. Fran, which some experts fear may pack the punch of Hurricane Hugo, is likely to come ashore Thursday afternoon north of Charleston, the same place where Hugo, with its 140 mph winds, hit land with devastating effect in 1989. Fran is as large as Hugo and has the potential to equal its strength as it passes over warm water...
...horizon are MCI Communications and Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., which have sunk $1.1 billion into their joint global dbs venture, American Sky Broadcasting. This pair love a good marketing punch-up. The company started swinging last month, touting ASkyB's service as "entertainment like nothing on earth." Earth to Rupert: the system is at least two years from launch...
...Beckett black. Inside, they toted books by or about the master. When the curtain rose, their attention was votive; they laughed and sighed and never dared cough. The dangling melodramatic ending of one play elicited a collective gasp, like that of a child hearing a ghost story's tantalizing punch line. At the curtain calls their faces beamed at the actors with rapture and gratitude. In the lobby afterward they bought T shirts reading GATE THEATRE--BECKETT FESTIVAL...