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Word: yamano (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...organizations that feed all of a holder's card numbers into a computer and notify the proper companies as soon as a loss is reported, are dying out. Just a year ago, there were at least 40; today the FTC knows of only four. . . . When Japanese-born Mike Yamano of Los Angeles applied for a Diners Club card in 1958, he was rejected as a poor credit risk. Today, Yamano is taking his revenge on the credit card industry. Outraged by his Diners Club rejection and resentful that cash customers must pay the same prices as those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Plastic Loophole | 9/13/1971 | See Source »

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