While the cleanliness factor is nice, the security benefits are one of the biggest draws of switching to plastic money.
The device is particularly well suited for a country with strong misgivings about plastic money: both Japan's credit- and debit-card markets are under-developed.
Within two weeks, Bob had received his first plastic money machine.
It holds our plastic money (credit and debit cards and coupons), our cash, sometimes a few coins, business cards, important phone numbers and our personal ID cards.
There a clearinghouse network allows electronic settlement of all plastic-money transactions for any type of card or issuing bank.
Just before quitting time, Joel handed him a plastic bag full of money that the staff had collected.
The brothers had no experience in the car industry, having made their money selling plastic cups, plates and gifts for Asian airlines.
The faster a plant can identify and sort its plastic, the more money it should make giving it a much better chance of operating in the black.
The soldiers found the money packed in plastic bags during an operation in a deserted Farc rebel camp in April 2003.
In the sun room, for example, where Mr. Ye kept the traditional blue-gray-black wall paintings, the workers decided to save money by using plastic in the ceiling blinds instead of the wooden slats Mr. Ye had requested.
First, junior doctors are now aware that a qualification in plastic surgery is a licence to print money by enabling them to circumvent payment ceilings and other constraints on the public system.
There are stored-value cards, which allow customers to load money onto a microchip-bearing piece of plastic.
Families will have more money to spend in restaurants, buy some plastic surgery that might have been un-affordable, help the family vacation fund.
We use less and less cash and more and more plastic so we don't have that discipline to allocate money for different things.
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Executives are discussing plans to lease the Plastic Logic e-reader to long-term subscribers, with the money going toward purchase of the device.
Money needs psychological acceptance: The population must unblinkingly accept the fact that a plastic card or flimsy paper is of great value.
Some of these countries have used polymer only for commemorative bills: these include China, where paper money was first used in the seventh century, and Brazil, where an experiment with plastic in 2000 proved unpopular.
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There are two upsides to paying with plastic: First, if you borrow enough to pay off the balance of your mortgage, all of the money goes towards principal.
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