Word: visaed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Afghanistan issue will probably be debated in the U.N. General Assembly next month. Most Western press coverage of the conflict has come from listening posts in Pakistan and India and from reporters who have slipped into rebel-held territory. TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott received a rare visa from the Afghan government and last week sent this report from Kabul...
Stanislaw Baranczak, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, arrived in Cambridge last spring after a long struggle to obtain an exit visa...
...Banc One handle the mountain of paperwork. At first Bank of America dismissed the notion that an unknown outfit from Ohio's corn belt could act as a clearing house for a national credit card system. But McCoy persisted and eventually got the job. BankAmericard evolved into Visa, and Banc One today is the third largest credit card processor in the U.S. It serves 160 financial institutions in 28 states, performing more than 100 million transactions annually for 2 million cardholders...
McCoy's biggest success to date has been providing banking services for Merrill Lynch's Cash Management Account, which allows customers to write checks or use a Visa card against a money market account. Begun in 1977, the CMA has escalated into a $25 billion business with nearly 400,000 accounts. Other brokerage houses, including Dean Witter Reynolds, A.G. Edwards and Charles Schwab, are now preparing to offer clones of the CMA, and they have asked Banc One to act as their banker...
...years Congress has been weighing proposals to waive the visa requirement for Britain and a few other countries that reciprocate. However, Gise warns that if the U.S. did not require visas in advance, foreigners might face waits of up to four hours to get past the meticulous and often irritating U.S. Immigration officers at U.S. ports of entry. Most Britons reluctantly accept the visa requirement, though some cite it as yet another example of American insolence...