In Moscow old-age pensioners carry a chip-based smart card from Visa that acts as a subway pass and id card and affords them discounts at pharmacies.
Congress, again including members of his own party, wouldn't pass his "card-check" legislation eliminating secret ballots in union elections.
Now a spy, traitor or whistle-blower can put gigabytes of data on a fingernail-sized card and pass them on anonymously, irretrievably and all but instantly.
Do you run down the aisle and pass out your business card to everyone seated one by one, delivering the fastest 7 second speech around?
Citibank would write an absurdly pro-credit card law, the South Dakota legislature would pass it, the governor would sign it and every credit card issuer in America would move to South Dakota to establish their corporate home base so that they might be free of the limitations placed on them by most other states where they might base their operations.
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Depending on the next card, they then pass, match or raise, and so on.
Now all they can do is pass information to the credit-card processor.
Our members must have an airside pass to operate aircraft and now discover that to get that pass they must have a national ID card.
American Greetings in Cleveland is one of the established greeting card companies that has taken a pass for now.
Another American Express product, called PASS, is a prepaid, re-loadable card parents can give teens and young adults.
That isn't an option for charities, religious groups and other nonprofits, which usually can't pass along the fees because of rigid credit-card rules.
As part of that settlement, the credit card companies had to allow merchants the freedom to pass along swipe fees to customers if they choose to do so.
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"Every dollar we pay the credit-card companies is a dollar we can't pass on to consumers or use to hire employees or build more stores, " said Scott Mason, vice president of government affairs for home-improvement retailer Lowe's Cos.
He would then pass what he knew on to Robinson through clandestine meetings, phone card calls or prepaid cellphone calls.
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In addition, passengers must be prepared to present a local, state, or federal government-issued identification card at the boarding gate, along with the boarding pass.
When a traveller enters an airport with one of these smart cards, sensors read the passenger's card and automatically send a gate number and electronic boarding pass to the passenger's smartphone.
And it also backed an amendment sponsored by Republican John McCain and Democrat Edward Kennedy that allows the millions of undocumented workers already in the country to get on the road to citizenship, provided they pay a thousand dollar fine, that they pass criminal background checks, and that they apply for a green card.
That said, the card Merkel has played this weekend is a one-time pass, a Boy Who Cried Wolf trick.
The Art Fund also relaunched its membership card - which will now be known as the National Art Pass - offering free or discount admission to more than 200 museums and galleries.
Walking in I pass a dour-looking lady, clipped to the machine by her affinity card, mesmerized by the spinning wheels.
The banks might also pass on some of their lost revenues by reducing what they pay to the card networks such as MasterCard.
Thousands of over-the-counter products now must pass behind the pharmacist's counter when the customer pays with the special debit card.
To gain a green card, which offers a step toward citizenship, they would need to pay taxes, pass a background check and line up behind people who had applied to the system legally.
After then checking in as normal at the same kiosk, passengers can pass through a miSense automatic security gate by placing their finger on a scanner and inserting their boarding card into the reader.
If they don't have a frequent-flier ID card, travelers check in online or at kiosks and get a bar code on a printed boarding pass or on a mobile phone, just like at other airlines.
It also requires card holders under 21 years of age to have co-signers, prove they have adequate income or pass a money management course.
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