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...goal of former Chairman Wriston, who became a mentor. Reed triumphed again: he opened hundreds of new branches, bought the Carte Blanche and Diners Club credit-card companies, and launched Citicorp even more heavily into the consumer credit-card business by signing up 2 million new members for Citibank Visa cards. Expansion initially created staggering bank losses of more than $200 million in three years. But Reed eventually turned the consumer operations into a major moneymaker -- and helped position himself as a prime contender for Wriston's job. When he was finally tapped for succession in 1984, Reed talked...
...would buy something if you'd take my Visa," a particularly stiff Ohioan said the other...
Confronted by the often bewildering requirements of the bill, many illegal aliens have been suckered into fly-by-night scams hatched by crooked self-styled "visa consultants" and "immigration counselors." In East Palo Alto, Calif., Alejandra, a 20-year-old Mexican college student who has been living in the U.S. since 1977, forked over several thousand dollars to a "counselor" at Wally's Immigration Service for what turned out to be phony immigration applications for herself and her family. Later the counselor vanished...
...proceeded to select an album and bring it to the counter. After disengaging myself from my weighty baggage claim check, I pulled out my Visa card and presented it to the attendant...
Then she called the Visa company to see if I was a deadbeat. Then she checked the catalog to see if my card had been revoked. Lastly, she filled out the bill and asked me to add my address and phone number to the bottom of the register in order to make sure I really wasn't a deadbeat and to prevent me from absconding with the engine block that served as my claim check...