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AUTHORIZING TRANSACTIONS. American Express has 500 human operators to field calls from retailers who do not have electronic equipment to get approvals. These employees verbally authorize 2.5 million charge-card transactions a month. Some of the authorizations are now being given by computers that ask for account numbers and purchase prices and then check cardholders' accounts automatically...
Proponents of the law contend that babies should not be exchanged for money as if they were objects or slaves. Surrogacy should be treated like adoption, they say. In other words, a woman is still allowed to bear a child for the express purpose of giving it up to another, but she is no longer allowed to receive anything in return, not even a guarantee of visitation rights...
...plot has the simplicity of a daytime drama: Margaret is overly repressed and unable to express her attraction to Mutt. Mutt expresses his desire for Margaret crudely in the beginning but refines his feelings as he gains maturity. Hank hires "Pris." Hank gives Pony his big break. Pris falls in love with Hank. Pony falls in love with Hank. Pris and Hank marry. Pris, who cannot deal with her own superfluity, feels that Hank is too whole as a person. Pony descends into cocaine and alcohol abuse. Pony grows to accept with Hank's inaccessibility, but never grows to accept...
...Games may be starting in Barcelona, but the affiliated Corporate Sponsor Marketing Games have been going hot and heavy for some time. The main event is a piratical competition known as ambush marketing. The venues are magazines and television. The major matches so far are Visa International vs. American Express and Coca-Cola vs. Pepsi-Cola...
...make its charge plate the Games' official credit card, while Coca-Cola has plunked down $33 million to become the official soft drink. Challengers, who pay no entry fee to play, attempt to disrupt the exclusive promotional campaigns with disguised Olympic tie-in ads of their own. American Express denies that it is playing ambush. Instead its clever effort, unveiled last week, is billed as "corrective advertising," aimed at misperceptions fostered by Visa advertising that the American Express card is not accepted in Barcelona. "The Olympics don't take American Express," warns Visa. Counters the American Express ad: "And remember...