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Word: visa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Paul, my best friend from high school. Our El-Al flight from London disembarked in Jerusalem at 4 a.m. local time, and most of the passengers filtered through the line for Israeli nationals. We entered the foreign passport line along with 50 others. When the immigration agent saw a visa stamp in my U.S. passport, she asked me dryly, "You were in Pakistan...

Author: By Murad S. Hussain, | Title: IDENTITIES UNDER SIEGE | 11/19/1998 | See Source »

Mayer said he hopes to get "quite a bit" of business through the Crimson Cash Web site, which will accept Visa and MasterCard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Cash Transfers Now Available On-line | 11/12/1998 | See Source »

...sell a Kiss Visa card. That doesn't scream rock 'n' roll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gene Simmons | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

...worker Gwendolyn informs us, he spends the majority of his time flirting with "the Harvard girls that come in to buy 50 cent Snickers bars." Gwendolyn does a charming impression of their habit of prententiously slapping down platinum credit cards on the counter and asking, "Ah, do you take Visa?" Indeed, Larry sees it all--sometimes too much...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONFESSIONS FROM STORE 24 | 10/15/1998 | See Source »

...nighttime hustlers-even more than the daytime ones-always want something: you buy them a beer, they'll sell you a joint. As Joey, a disgruntled Peace Corps worker in Kingston said, "I've never met a Jamaican who didn't want money, an American visa, or sex...or all three." One of the more bizarre propositions made by local men to male tourists is what Doctor Fabulous calls a "Hexchange"--"I'll trade you one of my black women for one of your white women." This sort of racial sexual fantasy would probably be best left to middle-aged...

Author: By Marshall I. Lewy, | Title: fantasy island | 10/15/1998 | See Source »

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