Word: visas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Along with the physical renovations, The Coop is abandoning the traditional Coop card in favor of a new Coop Visa card...
...stock market has officially entered La-La Land. The summer rally that last week pushed the Dow Jones industrial average to within a whisker of 8000 has blown through the last remaining bounds of sanity. No sweat, say some Wall Street swamis. The market has a permanent visa to the ether. But don't believe it. Like Wile E. Coyote running off a cliff while chasing the Roadrunner, the market is churning its legs furiously, but there's nothing beneath it. When investors finally look down...
...more refreshing aspects of Baffert's personality is his willingness to admit his mistakes. He also puts a lot of stock in fate, and he truly believes Silver Charm would not be racing for the $5 million Visa bonus that goes with winning the Triple Crown had it not been for owner Bob Lewis, a Budweiser distributor who has invested a lot of money and love in Thoroughbreds. "Bob is driving the bus," he says. "Gary and I are just along for the ride." The bus ride began when Baffert ran into the Lewises at a Huntington Beach, Calif., restaurant...
Burton's aides argue that Mobutu was once an American ally, which is true, and they distributed letters and speeches the Congressman made criticizing Mobutu's regime. But they had difficulty explaining why Burton urged the State Department in 1995 to grant Mobutu a visa despite his "corrupt and dictatorial practices." As for the charges leveled by Siegel and the Education Department official, Burton's defenders say that because both accusers are Democrats they shouldn't be trusted, and that Burton did nothing improper...
...highly enough of Dole that Gingrich should be safe on those grounds." The terms are extremely good: Gingrich has eight years to begin paying back the loan with an interest rate of 1.5 percent over prime (currently 10 percent). But Dole, who made $500,000 from his Super Bowl "Visa" spot alone, does not need the money, and his offer may well be as selfless as it sounds. "Apparently, it was all Dole's idea," Carney says. "He's never been someone who cared too much about having money. It really seems that Dole saw a chance to help...