Word: offers
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...planning to run ads only in Atlanta for now. Elsewhere the push will be through the mail. If you are a cardholder in one of the initial markets (Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oregon, Virginia, Wisconsin and the District of Columbia), don't be surprised to find an offer in your June statement...
...just because Karl Malden won't be brought to overbear on this doesn't mean Amex considers it unimportant. "Membership Savings will be the basis for establishing a broader financial relationship with Cardmembers," reads an internal marketing piece. "In time, we plan to offer several savings and investment products" -- IRAs and annuities, for example. With millions of affluent cardholders, Amex can quickly accumulate tens of billions of dollars in deposits with nary a bank branch or broken ball-point...
Though finding accessible housing remains a problem for Fond du Lac's disabled, the city has made progress in opening some public accommodations. Movie theaters have removed rows of seats to make room for people in wheelchairs. Several service stations offer to pump gas at no extra charge for disabled drivers, and grocery stores provide electric carts for shoppers who cannot navigate the long aisles. Parking spaces marked with the blue-and-white symbol of a wheelchair are vigilantly guarded; anyone who illegally slips into one is subject to a $30 fine. Rather than rely on police to enforce...
...what little remained on the shelves. Miners in the Donbass region who struck for three weeks last summer said they would protest the impending price rises and call for a nationwide strike next month. While Gorbachev's critics were puzzling over that ploy, he made a tantalizing new offer to the Lithuanians: their own state in two to three years if they "freeze" their unilateral declaration of independence. Then, when he met with French President Francois Mitterrand for a tour of the horizon, Gorbachev reiterated his insistence that ending the cold war means ^ retiring NATO...
...Hinting at the offer he would make later in the week, Gorbachev stressed his commitment to seeking a "political solution" in the Baltics and said there were "new and encouraging signs" of a way to end the crisis. The next day the Lithuanian parliament suspended some of its secessionist legislation, though it stopped short of freezing its March 11 declaration of independence...