The 6.8 million Nina cards arrived in the country in June, and, despite initial delays in their distribution and what one official referred to as "enormous logistical challenges", electoral officials insisted that 85 per cent of Nina cards had reached, or at least been made available to, their intended recipients.
One month after the world's population topped 7 billion in October 2011, the GSM Association announced that mobile SIM cards had reached 6 billion.
Public anger over credit card rates has reached the White House -- on Thursday President Obama assembled CEOs to talk to them about their controversial practices.
Jiang spoke of his player's achievement "changing the history" of Wimbledon, presumably meaning that it is the farthest a Chinese woman has gone in a Grand Slam, and is only the second time a wild-card player has reached the women's semifinals in the Open era.
A much larger group of Americans, meanwhile, seems to be deciding that their debt -- or at least their high-interest credit card debt -- has reached its limit.
Then again, only one team in the wild-card era, the 1995 Cincinnati Reds, has reached the postseason after starting 0-5.
Cingular Wireless, a mobile-phone company, has reached a card-check agreement with the communication workers' union.
That would explain why student loan debt has reached $1 trillion -- far exceeding national credit card debt.
But we don't know whether Boko Haram has reached that stage, or whether it has decided to play the card early," he adds.
By the time it was finished, her credit card debts had reached $80,000, and her earnings have only just cleared them.
