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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...employee of the Bank of America, invents the first all- purpose credit card in 1956. Several years later at the same bank, Dee Ward Hock devises the computer system that processes charges so credit cards can be used everywhere. What a perfect name for the father of the modern Visa card -- Hock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Money: Let My Dollars Go! | 9/19/1994 | See Source »

...cards. While the AmEx elite shelled out annual fees, Discover clients were issued free cards. Amex users had to pay their bills in full each month; savvy bank-card customers enjoyed revolving credit at modest interest rates. AmEx clients could brandish their cards in 3.7 million upscale establishments worldwide; Visa cards opened 11 million doors, MasterCard 12.3 million. Feeling decidedly underprivileged, 2 million AmEx users cut up their cards between 1991 and 1993 and went in search of better bargains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do You Still Know Me? | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

...appeal to consumers if they can't use the new cards when and where they want. In recent years, AmEx has been chucked out of establishments by owners who were no longer willing to pay an average fee of 3.2% per purchase (as compared with 2% for Visa and MasterCard). A chastened Amex has now chopped its vendor fee to 2.8%, and the ploy seems to be working. Since 1992, the company has moved boldly into / establishments regarded by consumers as plastic-essential, including -- choke on this, yuppie scum! -- Sears and K Mart. This year alone, AmEx expects to sign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do You Still Know Me? | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

...Irish Republican Army's political leader, Gerry Adams, appears set to make a second visit to the U.S. this year -- this time as an ambassador of peace. The State Department is preparing a U.S. visa in that event. To play fair, the U.S. is also entertaining a request from a Northern Ireland Unionist delegation to visit Washington. The last time the Clinton Administration gave Adams U.S. entry, in January, the move strained ties between Washington and London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I.R.A. . . . ADAMS GETS A U.S. INVITE | 9/9/1994 | See Source »

...same time, adoption experts estimate that 500 U.S. children -- most of them black or biracial -- are being placed in homes in Australia, Canada and Western Europe each year. The number could be even higher: because the U.S. has no exit-visa requirements, the Federal Government does not keep count. Moreover, while all 50 states have procedures for domestic adoptions, the Federal Government neither regulates foreigners' adoptions nor follows up to learn how the children are faring. Though a State Department official says there has been talk among his colleagues of erecting safeguards, as yet nothing has been done. Says Susan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Babies for Export | 8/22/1994 | See Source »

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