Word: express
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gold card for 21 years now, and am thus something of a student of American Express. I watched in amazement as it introduced flight insurance, in admiration as it goosed charge volume by offering to donate money to the Statue of Liberty, in wonder as it offered the platinum card (twice to a friend who was at the same time being dunned for late payments on his green card), and in awe as it offered baggage insurance against the possibility that your tennis racket would wind up in Acapulco more than six hours after you did. (A mere...
...fact is it's hard to open mail from American Express Travel Related Services division with anything but keen interest, if only to try to figure out what's travel related about some of its offerings: a grandfather clock, a 40-in. TV or the offer in my mail today: a tax-deferred annuity...
...Year's Day, 18 Senators and their wives were flown to Scottsdale, Ariz., to play in a charity tennis tournament with executives of Dow Chemical, Citibank, Morgan Stanley and Motorola. The next weekend another group of Senators was schussing down the slopes in Park City, Utah, courtesy of American Express, Delta Airlines and U S West...
...their victim and surviving family members. Sexual offenders meet with groups of victims every few months. At its prisons and work camps, the California Youth Authority runs voluntary classes in which inmates study property crimes, domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse, homicide and victims' rights. Some offenders do eventually express remorse. Says one Giddings boy, a middle- class 15-year-old from Austin who raped his eight-year-old neighbor: "I realize how society really looks at rape. Sometimes at night I sit up crying. I look back and say that could never have been...
...nation learning the ground rules of democracy. "The major achievement," said Estonian Deputy Siim Kallas, "has been showing the people that Deputies can pose questions to the higher authorities." More important, of course, are the answers. A Moscow woman told the daily Moskovsky Komsomolets, "In other countries, if people express dissatisfaction with their government, it steps down. What about ours?" A Moscow worker offered an equally blunt assessment: "I like the way they are letting off steam, but we're not better fed because...