The credit card, an idea born 50 years ago when an absent-minded businessman dining out discovered that he had left his wallet elsewhere, now provides financial convenience for 157 million Americans, more than three-quarters of the adult population.
Hiram Broyls, principal of Burbank Elementary, called the report cards a fine idea, although he acknowledged that in some school districts, criticizing parents could amount to "political suicide".
It's alright to base your card design off an idea you saw, but add your own personalized touches to the card.
But Rangers did when they toyed with the idea of issuing a credit card in 2008, an idea they dropped and then forgot about, apparently.
I'd look through the note cards until I found an idea that I loved, and then I'd act as though it was a brand new idea from a collaborator to me, and I would finish it myself as though as I was my own co-writer.
Read the damned safety card so you have an idea what you're doing.
I wrote a whole article on the Adobe Kickstart initiative where any employee within the company can sign up for a two-day innovation workshop during which they are given a pre-paid $1,000 credit card to test out an idea and build a prototype.
The government would also require users to sign up for registration cards to keep foreigners away — an idea influenced by a new policy in the Netherlands, which restricts marijuana sales to residents — and to track and limit Uruguayans' purchases (to perhaps 40 joints a month, officials say).
The behaviour of the Analytical Engine would have been controlled by a program of instructions contained on punched cards connected together with ribbons (an idea that Babbage had adopted from the Jacquard weaving loom).
Fair or not, some thought the ultimate message of "The Sopranos" was that people are inherently selfish and can't change, an idea "House of Cards" takes as its bleak starting point -- and where it will end up is anyone's guess (though the Fincherian worldview is not one that allows for a whole lot of optimism, much less redemption).
