Word: visas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...money-market funds and similar to one created by Merrill Lynch in 1977. Under that program, customers with at least $20,000 in securities or cash in an account can put that cash into money-market funds, which currently earn about 14% interest. Customers can then use special Visa cards or checks issued through Merrill Lynch in stores, restaurants or anywhere else. Says Weill: "We can make the cash management account better." One idea: offer American Express's special gold credit card to Shearson's 500,000 customers...
...inevitable developments have led Jimmy Buffett a little further along the path of growing up. But he has only grown up to a certain extent. Though his trail has become littered with diapers and Visa receipts, along with the artifacts of a carefree existence, the independence of mind that makes his music distinctive still hangs on. It hasn't yet wasted away in Margaritaville...
Since any one arm of the various groups that rule Iran seldom knows what the others are doing, I was able to get a visa to travel to Pakistan. To confuse and elude the men who were trailing me, I made numerous appointments with important government officials on my home telephone, which I knew was tapped, and laid a false trail. Then I sneaked out of my home early one morning and flew to Zahedan, in southeastern Iran. With me I took a friend, Mirza Hashem Hosseini, and his wife, whose house had been raided and looted by a gang...
Amfitheatrof had just returned to Rome from the earthquake-shattered villages of southern Italy when he was called to help Kalb in Poland. With a Polish visa, prudently obtained back in August, he was able to fly directly to Warsaw and spend part of a day with Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa at church and at Walesa's home outside Gdansk. "The Poles are marvelously brave and calm," observes Amfitheatrof, who along with Kalb witnessed last week's emotional unveiling of the workers' monument in Gdansk. "Whatever the future holds for them has enormous implications for Eastern Europe...
...answered prayer. For Sendak, visiting the land of the very young is not something that requires a visa. He is a permanent citizen...