Word: visas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Testifying before the House Banking Subcommittee on Consumer Credit and Insurance, Bedell explained that she had once been an ordinary, happy-go-lucky college student, before Visa and the Discover Card targeted her for financial ruin...
Needless, because, as Paul A. Allen, vice president and general counsel of Visa USA, points out, "There are always horror stories, but in reality, college students perform as well as or better than the credit card holding population at large." Roughly four percent of college-age cardholders default on their debt--about the same percentage as the cardholding population at large...
...Allen notes, "If you're over 18, you're an adult. This is an adult market and they're treated as such by Visa and by the blanks...
...after we got the car fixed at this Esso station (thank God, this place took VISA), we started to drive back to Boston. It was around 11 pm or so. We decided to take I-93 because that would save us at least 2 hours of driving. Since the gas prices in Montreal were ridiculously high, we decided to fill up once we got past the border. However, once we crossed the border, we could not find a single gas station open past midnight. So we were stranded in the middle of nowhere without gas. We pulled the car into...
...tremor was sent through U.S.-British relations when Gerry Adams, leader of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, was granted a 48- hour visa to visit New York City. There he attended a conference on Northern Ireland and met with groups of supporters. British officials, who opposed President Clinton's decision to allow Adams' visit, were angered that Adams had not explicitly called for an end to I.R.A. violence. Adams repeated his demand that British officials clarify their joint declaration with the Irish government, which promises the I.R.A. a seat at the negotiating table...