Digital-only purists would still get something out of the deal, as the update could also bring person-to-person money transfers and support for mass transit cards.

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Around 1900, The DIY Victorian valentine was supplanted by mass-produced cards delivered by mail.

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Most baseball cards are extremely inexpensively made, and mass-produced, making all cards from any given series fundamentally the same, except of course for the subject.

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After the Olympics came a vast transformation to the current Michelin star-studded gastronomic paradise, likewise a renaissance for office towers, shinkansen fast trains, freeways and, later, mass foreign tourism with a strong currency and credit cards.

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"Consumers have clearly said this is a no-go, " said Patricia Hewitt, who specializes in debit cards at Mercator Advisory Group Inc. in Maynard, Mass.

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Watching him then, it was easy to understand why after his arrest, when it was already widely known in Hyde that he was suspected of mass murder, the walls of his surgery carried dozens of Good Luck cards.

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So will its subsidiary Hang Seng (No. 49), which is targeting a mass market that is only now becoming comfortable with innovations like phonebanking and credit cards.

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Defendants in medical malpractice lawsuits might have the cards stacked against them in a court that tends to favor defendants in mass-tort suits.

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It sounds like an unlikely match: Crane has been printing cards and stationery on paper made of 100 percent cotton since 1801 in Dalton, Mass.

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