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...continuing battle between Interbank Card Association, whose 11,000 members are the financial institutions, primarily banks, that issue MasterCard, and rival Visa International, which has about 11,500 members. MasterCard (formerly Master Charge) and Visa are each carried by more than 60 million people in the U.S., but the tide of success is running with Visa. Five years ago, approximately 6 million more people carried Master Charge than Visa, then called BankAmericard. Through shrewd marketing, and a court ruling that allowed banks to issue both cards, Visa now leads...
...history. His teams have won 23 games in a row, currently the longest winning streak in big-time college football. Bryant has taken teams to bowl games 26 times (a record); last season's Sugar Bowl appearance was the 21st consecutive postseason trip for Alabama's Crimson Tide (also a record). Under his stewardship, the polls gave Alabama the national championship six times. Bryant's teams have won 14 Southeastern Conference titles and a Southwest Conference crown...
...eight months in prison, Aquino has no small sense of irony. He knows Marcos could not afford to let him die of a heart attack in jail without creating a martyr and risking the collapse of the regime. He knows he alone can help Marcos stem the ever-swelling tide of revolution in a country that, as he says, "has been under martial law for far too long." Although he bounds about the placid office in Coolidge Hall with energy remarkable for someone just weeks removed from major coronary surgery, he knows the danger to his health...
...rising tide of political violence spurs a reluctant coup
...customers. The store, moreover, charges 25? if people pay for groceries with a check, and grocery bags cost 3? each. Large yellow arrows on the aisle floors direct customers to Maxwell House coffee at $2.99 per lb., ground beef at $1.29 per Ib. and a 5-Ib. box of Tide at $2.58. All are substantially cheaper than at competing markets. On nights and weekends, when the store is most crowded, the atmosphere is akin to the running of the bulls down the streets of Pamplona. Bobbi Rice, 31, drives four miles to shop at the Safeway Food Barn, although...