Word: visas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...called upon to design a job description so specific that no one except their clients -- who may already hold the jobs illegally -- are likely to qualify. On occasion, wholesale lying is involved; attorneys have been involved in setting up bogus companies that do nothing but substantiate the credentials of visa seekers...
...catalyst, however. In New York City, for instance, the Susan Harder Gallery is showing his pictures of gardens and flowers, while the International Center of Photography is planning an exhibit of later work for next year. "It only took them 24 hours to get me a visa," Kertesz once lamented. "But it took them 35 years to discover me." There are discoveries still to come...
Does America need a new credit card? Sears thinks so. The nation's largest retailer will soon test-market its Discover credit card, which will compete against American Express and Visa. Sears will try out its orange-and-black piece of plastic this fall in Atlanta. The card will be accepted by Denny's restaurants, Hospital Corp. of America, American Airlines and Budget Rent a Car, as well as Sears stores. Holiday Inns is reportedly expected to sign...
...Genscher to visit the grave of Father Jerzy Popieluszko, the Solidarity supporter who was murdered last month. In addition, the Warsaw regime vetoed Genscher's request to lay a wreath at the grave of a German soldier killed in World War II and refused to grant a visa for the visit to the correspondent of Bonn's conservative daily Die Welt...
...last June as Wriston's successor, is a consumer-banking specialist with an affinity for long-shot risks. Reed's hits and misses during his career have both been spectacular. In 1980 and 1981 he showered the country with 26 million letters inviting consumers to apply for Visa cards. Many of them fell into the wallets of poor credit risks, and Citicorp rang up some $75 million in bad debts. Nonetheless, Reed's bold push into consumer banking, which included blanketing New York City with ATMs, was ultimately successful. The bank's consumer division went from...