"Banks tried to defeat this bill, not because they cared about patrons' privacy, but because they knew that it would cost them billions of dollars to set up systems to read paper cheques".Staying out of jailEven if the new legislation is largely symbolic, it proved enough to cripple an industry already reeling from the earlier arrests.
Of course, many Playland patrons care little about the historic structures.
"I myself wouldn't care if the patrons came in mufti, because we would have black tie on and would be going to our club boxes," Mr. Ashdown said.
The summer my wife was pregnant with our first child and President Clinton was slipping toward impeachment, I volunteered to drive a crippled dog, a female Gordon setter, from my home in Montana, where it was being cared for by patrons of our small-town animal shelter, to the New York City apartment of a rich young man, a Rockefeller, who had adopted it on the Internet.
The authorities shut down the gold standard of clubbing that actually cared about their patrons.
The gas station outside is regularly busy, but few of its patrons care to come inside.
Patron gods and patron saints who are particularly charged with caring for some small group, craft, or activity or who operate in special circumstances, such as during illness or war, occur in most religions and are popular in many.
ID card scanning programs – for all their self-claims of "duty of care" for patrons – are comprehensively unevaluated corporate money-making projects, and alarm bells should be ringing.
You get the feeling that the patrons really care about wine, so it was hard not to feel a bit silly ordering the prosecco with strawberries and basil, which, though fresh and filled with delightfully chunky bits of berry, was undeniably pink.
