What was true in 1955 is even more true tooay, to say nothing of the future. According to the Civil Service 2000 report: Just as there is not really a unitary Federal work force, but rather a collection of Federal agencies, there is not really a national labor market, but a collection of local ones.
CHIPS UID stands for Clearing House Interbank Payments System Universal Identifier. This is just a fancy name for an electronic clearinghouse database system, which facilitates the transfer of funds from both individual consumers and institutions.
EMV cards are also known as chip cards, because they contain computer chips that are used to authenticate each transaction. The technology has been thrust into the news in the last 10 months, ever since Target's disastrous retail breach that exposed 40 million credit and debit card numbers to hackers.