Is the "orange card" about to taken from the back of the pack and shuffled once more?
American consumers love their credit cards, often prioritizing credit card payments ahead of their home mortgages, but their relationship with their credit cards is about to change.
So I need you to tell me my credit card balance when I'm on a third-party credit card site, about to use my card, instead of just refusing the transaction because I'm over the limit.
Yes, the flimsy western house of cards is about to tumble thanks to my latest masterstroke.
And the lounge, brightened by a grand pewter chandelier, had little cards scattered about to remind us "out of consideration for others" not to use our mobile phones.
You have been given the task of creating a multinational staff to investigate the propriety of some extremely sophisticated transactions undertaken by people who knew (or at least suspected) that their whole deck of cards was about to collapse.
The Public Health Service inspectors have been meeting flights arriving from SARS-affected countries in Asia -- both to hand out small information cards about SARS and to give passengers an initial, if cursory, screening for signs of illness.
Chatterton-Dixon did not know of any government that had yet taken up the British offer, in part he speculated, because to do so would "show a government's cards" about its willingness to take detainees.
