21.   As these debit cards become increasingly popular, strains are appearing among customers, merchants and banks.

22.   Ask your bank about a debit card, a card that looks like a credit card, but works like a check.

23.   As such, Fleet is offering its customers free admission to the Metropolitan Museum for the duration of the exhibition by showing any Fleet ATM or debit card.

24.   At the heart of the new cashless safety net was the debit card, known as the electronics benefits transfer card.

25.   ATMs replace tellers, on-line banking displaces passbooks, credit and debit cards displace checkbooks.

26.   Avoid using debit cards.

27.   Bank of America announced last week that it would not make its debit card customers pay anything to cover losses from stolen cards.

28.   Bank of Melbourne products such as its own debit card and fee-free banking policy must be retained.

29.   Banks currently issue debit cards to electronically tap funds in your checking account.

30.   Banks and savings-and-loan associations are increasingly tapping into a new trough of funds by offering debit cards with Visa and MasterCard logos.