There were always children hawking ID holders, cellular air time cards, and other trinkets.
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Since 1990, cards to enter Singapore Polytechnic's Japan-Singapore Institute of Software Technology double as time cards, recording how long users have been on the premises.
There are many companies that sell jet membership, or block-time cards.
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It's been out in Japan for a couple of years, and has been marketed for such mundane tasks as reading time cards for beleaguered salarymen and storing healthcare records in hospitals.
Over time, cards have woven themselves into the fabric of our culture in a far deeper way than most financial services.
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When children bring the cards into the lunchroom, they often spend time looking at the cards instead of eating lunch.
His reason is that redistricting was needed and electronic voter cards took time to distribute.
His reason: Redistricting had to take place and electronic voter cards took time to distribute.
Other issuers also spend massive amounts of time and money creating cards that feel tailor-made for the holder.
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Professor WILLIAM WHEATON (Economics, MIT): There are two wild cards this time around.
Cutting out your use of credit cards means time-consuming trips to the ATM and extra service charges from increased debit card use.
To make a long story short, card issuers have raised balance transfer rates and fees big time, so many cards that used to charge 2-3% are now charging 4-5%.
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Every time we swipe our cards, they learn more.
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Bank of America ( BAC - news - people ) aims its bank- card pitch at employers who buy them in bulk as staff gifts. (BofA declined to comment on whether employers receive a discount rate for buying scads of cards at a time.) There's no dormancy fee with BofA's product, but after nine months the cards become worthless, whatever the remaining balance is.
You can train Google Now over time by swiping away any cards that you don't want.
Installing extra cards at the time you build a site is also cost effective.
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The threat of a modern day competitor for fares in the capital has been on the cards for some time, according to a motor industry expert.
Dearer oil had been on the cards for some time, as the oil producers strengthened their cartel, partly as a consequence of the massive rise in the demand for oil from the rapidly-growing industrial countries.
Tempers boiled over on the touchline as the game hit injury time, with five yellow cards issued and Conroy issuing a warning to Kilmarnock manager Mixu Paatelainen, clearly frustrated at how his side had lost the match.
While the Senate is selling this as a win-win for the American consumer, the unintended consequences for consumers are being swept under the rug, including a likely reduction in available credit cards at a time when many need credit to pay their bills.
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The new Duet D888 option let's you mix up one of Cellular Abroad's roaming SIM along with a second of your own, so theoretically, you could make this your primary phone if you do a lot of traveling and hate breaking your fingernails (or your will to live) every time you want to swap cards between phones.
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"This has been on the cards for a long time, but the campaign goes on, " he said.
This makes playing cards at the same time difficult, although not impossible.
Mr. TOBY HADRETT: Most of the time, we pay with credit cards.
In addition, Intuit improved the swipe channel to read cards accurately the first time by putting it on an angle, beveling it and making it longer.
With the awful economic reports of late Fed tightening any time soon is not in the cards, and bonds are realizing that, recovering their appeal as a safe haven.
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