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...more and more banks tightened their credit standards in 2008 and '09, the smaller lenders to people with poor credit have been able to not only pick up that business but also raise interest rates, since borrowers have fewer options. Shares of many of the companies, including Cash America, Dollar Financial, First Cash Financial and World Acceptance, have risen sharply this year. World, one of the biggest, has seen its stock price rise to a recent $41 from $15 a year ago. World makes much of its money refinancing its existing customers into new loans with longer terms and lower...
...Trade Organization rules. For that reason, says Nicole Bacharan, a specialist on U.S.-European affairs at Stanford University, "the way this contract was handled wasn't any different from how it would be handled in any other country - especially one whose defense industry is as big but fragile as America...
...You’re from Britain, which is known here in America for having bad food. Did you like the food around you growing...
Gender roles were certainly subverted, as audience members watched a man transform into a woman in front of their very eyes. In a similar vein, comedian Mary Dolan instructed the crowd, “Be free, my friends. This is America. You’re at the Jerkus Circus...
...sparkling flag pin, she fidgeted as she recited the merits of her candidacy in an interview with TIME. When the topic turned to Barack Obama, she confessed deep fears. "I don't think the President really cares about our health care," Morton says. "He's not trying to lead America. He's trying to position himself to be a leader higher up, and the only way he can do that is to bring America into the whole one-world-order concept." Obama, she adds, belongs to a plutocratic cabal that manufactures crises for personal profit, foisting scams like health care...