Word: visas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another irritation for some consumers is that banks are changing the rules about interest payments. Traditionally, for example, Visa and MasterCard holders have had 30 days in which to pay their bills in full before finance charges began. Now, however, dozens of banks have started to charge interest as soon as purchases are made...
...adding to the turmoil in the credit- card industry is the advent of tax reform. Some experts think the new law will slow down the use of plastic credit because it phases out deductions for interest on card balances. But some banks are getting around that problem by linking Visa cards or MasterCards to a home-equity credit line. Interest on these home loans is still fully deductible. Customers can therefore get a credit line against their homes that permits them to run up as much as $100,000 in interest-deductible card charges. But, warns Edward Kramer, senior vice...
...prisoner-of- war camp in Chelm, Poland. From there the trail becomes murky. According to Defense Attorney Mark O'Connor, Demjanjuk was then transferred to the pro- Nazi, anti-Communist Ukrainian National Liberation Army, and after the war was put in a displaced-persons camp. When he secured a visa to enter the U.S. in 1951, he concealed his military record and claimed to have spent the war years as a forced laborer for the Germans...
...course, breaking into the political scene in a foreign country is tough--and tougher still if you're not a legal citizen of that country and don't have a visa. Obstacles abounded. Name recognition: zero. Political backing: zero. Funds: fifteen dollars...
...that city, included as the coda for the trilogy published as Zuckerman Bound (1985); and Roth's editorship of a series, "Writers from the Other Europe," which has given Eastern European writers exposure in the West. Roth's access to Prague ended in the mid-'70s, when his visa was not renewed. He had been tailed and questioned there, as had those who associated with him. "After I left one time," he recalls, "the authorities went to one of my Czech friends and demanded to know what Roth was up to, what does he want here. My friend answered, 'Haven...