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...have a bank card, a business card and way too many credit cards. Do you still have one card too few? Visa, MasterCard, Citibank and Chase Manhattan all think so. This fall New York City will thrill to the roll-out of cash cards, the latest salvo in the banking and credit-card industries' eternal search to replace currency with plastic. Despite promises of a cashless society, 85% of everyday transactions are in cash or checks, which generate little income for banks...
Should the song have been remembered for its message, not its messengers? Perhaps, since the singing characters had already been portrayed as shallow bimbos. Before intermission came, the show also managed a salvo aimed at black urban culture. Stunned silence from some and guffaws from others greeted Nick Gordon's caricature of a performance as Sheik Ir-Bouti, recently returned from Long Island. In addition to the odious attributes of the show's writing, the majority of the actors suffered from overplaying that reached beyond the simply funny and into the realm of the suicide-inspiring...
American servicewomen and the spouses of servicemen will no longer be able to have abortions at overseas military hospitals, thanks to legislation passed in the House today. The bill amounts to an opening salvo in theGOP drive to eliminate government funding for abortionsand narrow access to the procedure. GOP Presidential hopeful Rep. Robert Dornan, (R-Calif.) led the charge as Republicans narrowly staved off a Democratic move to drop the ban from a 1996 defense spending bill. Ten abortions had been performed at the foreign bases since President Clinton's 1993 executive order ended...
...left them cold. Until recently, so had Dole, who never showed much interest in the politics of virtue before the Christian right emerged as a power bloc in the party. In an effort to gain their attention, he has been sniping for months at Hollywood. Last week's salvo was like a proposal of marriage...
President Clinton launched his own budget salvo when his Administration announced he would veto the first major set of G.O.P. spending cuts that both houses of Congress are expected to send to his desk: $16.4 billion worth of recisions from the current budget. Proposing a set of alternative cuts, the President said the G.O.P. package was unacceptable because it would slash education, environmental and crime-prevention programs at the same time that it spares road- and courthouse-construction projects...