Word: visas
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...United States will loosen visa restrictions for Chinese scholars and students studying in America, the State Department announced last month, giving in to the demands of universities, like Harvard, that have lobbied for years to see the policy change...
...expect that these changes will facilitate travel and visa issuance even further, and [we] applaud the changes,” said Sharon Ladd, director of Harvard’s International Office, adding that there had been a 70 percent drop in the number of visa delays last fall, compared to the previous year...
...need for a swipe, PIN or signature. Blink cuts purchase time 10% to 40% and increases spending about 20% over using cash, says Chase. There's a variable credit limit and, as with all other credit cards, minimal liability for lost or stolen plastic. One million MasterCard and Visa blink cards will be issued by summer's end, so companies such as 7-Eleven and Arby's franchiser Bailey Co. are blink-enabling their payment systems, beginning in Colorado-area stores; 7-Eleven's 5,300 U.S. stores will be enabled by next year, says Rick Updyke, V.P. of business...
...LaRouchites' "fund raising" technique, the indictment said, consisted of approaching people in airports, shopping centers and post offices in seven cities to solicit contributions and sell subscriptions to such LaRouche publications as Fusion, New Solidarity and Executive Intelligence Review magazines. Donors were encouraged to pay with Visa, MasterCard and American Express credit cards. The card numbers were then recorded on what LaRouche followers called "contact cards," which listed a cardholder's name, address, telephone number and special interests. Later fund raisers used the cards to make further pitches by telephone. Some victims were called 30 times or more, often...
Family means a lot to Frankel, whose patience, industry and craft have now won him the Times's top slot. Max was born in Gera, Germany, in 1930, and the Gestapo expelled him and his parents in 1938. While he and his mother angled for an exit visa to the U.S., his father was arrested by the Soviets as a German spy and offered the choice of Soviet citizenship or 15 years' hard labor in Siberia. He chose the latter and could not join his family, by then settled in Manhattan, until the late 1940s. Max's own brood comprises...