We recently bought a company out of Europe that does a tremendous amount in the area of billing and credit card style.
The government wants to introduce an American-style green-card scheme, but it seems implausible that it would allow in enough foreign workers to make up for the demographic shortfall, even if they all learned Japanese: by some estimates that would require about 600, 000 immigrants a year.
Marc Porter, at the University of Utah, has brought nanomagnets and GMR sensors together with nothing but a simple credit-card-style swipe.
China, where few ordinary citizens have a credit card (indeed, where credit-card-style revolving consumer lending is illegal), is MasterCard's second-largest market after America.
The Kiip rewards are designed to have some value and occupy a middle ground between low-end supermarket coupons and high-end Gold Card-style programs.
Additionally, there's now a new grid icon at the bottom of the homescreen, which when pressed brings up a webOS card-style preview of all homescreen pages -- which raises some interesting possibilities.
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He becomes ever harder to believe in, however fervent he is meant to be in defending the helpless Irene, and the suspicion arises that he might be not so much a rounded character as a card in a game of style.
All that being said, War of the Fallen is one of the better card battlers out there in terms of style and polish, on par with titles like Dark Summoner.
The race card at each meeting features flat racing, winter-style trotting and the local speciality, skijoring -- an awkward combination of horse, human and skis which is a clear crowd favorite.
Some examples included "I will make a handmade greetings card for your loved one" and "I will record a video message in the style of Robert De Niro".
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Customers could buy Internet time on a card and check email on any number of computers, but most would play the slot machine-style games.
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