Word: visas
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...actually a CIA spy, according to the Russians. More schoolmarm than Mata Hari in looks, she was snatched late Monday with "ink tablets for secret correspondence" and equipment for detecting surveillance, says Moscow. Administration and intelligence officials tell time they believe she was taken in retaliation for the U.S. visa clampdown. Other spy watchers point to the expulsion midyear of two Russian spies from the U.S. and Russian posturing ahead of parliamentary elections this month. Leberknight has until Dec. 11 to leave Russia. But compared with cold war days, when snatched spooks might be held in solitary or beaten...
Administration and intelligence officials tell TIME they believe she was taken in retaliation for the U.S. visa clampdown. Other spy watchers point to the expulsion midyear of two Russian spies from the U.S., and to Russian posturing ahead of parliamentary elections this month. Leberknight has until Dec. 11 to leave Russia. But unlike the situation in Cold War days, when snatched spooks might be held in solitary or beaten, she is likely to get out in one piece...
KIDDIE CARD Will technology-savvy teens take to the cashless society? Visa will soon find out. The company has launched a new debit card aimed at teenagers. The Visa PocketCard allows a parent or employer to make funds available to his or her "customer" electronically. "It is an account, but it's virtual," says William Scheurer, CEO of PocketCard Inc. You can transfer funds--via phone or online--from your bank account to an Internet one, so your teens can prowl the malls and the Web or chow down at Chili's. You can apply for this card only online...
...ultimate safe investment, were recently reset. Series EE savings bonds issued after May 1997 are now earning 5.19% interest, up from the 4.31% they were earning in May. The Treasury Department just unveiled an online purchasing program at WWW.SAVINGSBONDS.GOV. You can purchase the bonds with either a MasterCard or Visa. Careful. You will pay more in interest on the cards than you will earn on the bonds if you carry a balance...
...information about yourself before you can purchase anything. There goes the impulse buy. But that's how checkout works at most e-commerce sites. And that's where about a quarter of e-shoppers lose interest. Wouldn't it be so much easier if you could swipe your Visa card and be done with...