Word: tonnesen
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...assure victory for AmEx in its quest to reclaim the top standing it lost in 1989 in the $562 billion credit-card industry. The U.S. market is saturated with 1 billion pieces of plastic, issued by 6,500 companies. "Industry competition has turned into quite a fray," says Mark Tonnesen, president of credit-card services for Bank One in Columbus, Ohio. "The winner in all of this is the consumer." Even AmEx's Skillern acknowledges that "the world probably doesn't need a new credit card," though he remains confident that "consumers will welcome a new series of value propositions...
...Disklavier was also used for reproducing the rolls. Two computer programmers, Richard Tonnesen and Richard Brandle, converted the information on the rolls, wrote programs that approximated the sounds and qualities of the old player pianos and stored the results on floppy disks. The disks were then inserted into the Disklavier and played back at the actual, if ghostly, recording session...