Word: visas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...increasingly attractive summer vacation spot. But as the annual invasion gathers strength, a perennial complaint is again being heard from Western visitors: an American can usually gain entry to their countries merely by flashing a passport, while they cannot come to the U.S. without also obtaining a visa...
Citibank is already preparing for nationwide banking. It has put its VISA and MasterCard into the pockets of 5 million customers throughout the U.S. and is moving its credit-card operation to Sioux Falls, S. Dak., where it is free from any restrictions on what interest rate it can charge. Regional banks, such as North Carolina National, and Citizens & Southern in Atlanta, also want the right to expand across state boundaries and are promoting a law that would permit them to do banking in nearby states...
...write checks (of $500 or more) at any time. Better yet is Merrill Lynch's Cash Management Account. Customers with $20,000 to invest can not only reap high money-market yields but also write checks of any amount or use their accounts to pay for purchases with VISA debit cards. Some 300,000 people have opened Cash Management Accounts, which are available in 35 states, and another 1,000 are joining the program daily...
Although the Indian government-- which has governed Sikkim for the past five years--is usually reluctant to allow foreigners into the small country, Smith says the Indians desire for Western-style education will help him obtain a visa. "It's much better than just going there and knocking on some monastery door...
September 25--Giogio Napolitano, head of the culture section of the Italian communist party--who had been invited by the Government Department to lecture at the Center for European Studies--is denied a visa by the State Department on the grounds that he represents a danger to the national interest...