Word: atm
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...understood so little about how to manage it. Over the past decade, the average credit-card debt of Americans ages 18 to 24 doubled, to nearly $3,000. Among high school seniors, 4 out of 5 have never taken a personal-finance class, but nearly half have an ATM debit card, and more than a quarter have bounced a check, according to a survey of 5,775 teens, released in April by the nonprofit JumpStart Coalition for Financial Literacy. If those trends continue, declaring bankruptcy could become as common as earning a bachelor's degree...
...Republicans turned on Big Oil, an industry they normally treat like a good neighbor--or an ATM. In a particularly delicious bit of populist sophistry, the party led by two oil guys that is pro-business, antitax and antigovernment meddling was talking loudly about greedy petro-executives, IRS audits of oil-company tax returns and withdrawing $2 billion in industry-specific tax breaks over 10 years. That's about a month's worth of profits for ExxonMobil, which announced quarterly earnings of $8.4 billion. "Listen, we've got people like this that are working for a living, who are paying...
...sharing service, Griffith has made self-service, on-demand rental cars a mainstream amenity in 10 states and 29 cities, changing the way urban dwellers view owning a car and how much they drive. "We're trying to make getting a car as easy as getting cash from an ATM," he says. Each of Griffith's cars takes 20 privately owned vehicles off the road, reducing urban congestion, emissions and parking demand. Zipcar's 50,000 members (almost 40% of whom have either sold their car or decided not to buy one) can reserve one of 1,100 cars online...
...looked everywhere and are sure you did not spend it, realize that when you bring it up, your roommate will probably be offended and will deny taking your money. This does not mean you should skirt the issue, however. You should not have to be a convenient (and ignorant) ATM available to your roommate. Speak tactfully and calmly, but be very clear about how this action makes you feel: taken advantage of and hurt. You may not get your money back, but the awkwardness of the whole situation will most likely lead to the cessation of her borrowing escapades...
...There were two transit-authority cars and a cop SUV outside with flashing lights, and several cops inside the ATM room,” Cone, who is also a Crimson editor, wrote in an e-mail. “When we were walking by they were mostly done, but they were picking up a horizontally striped sweater with a small blood stain on it and placing it into a brown Home Depot paper bag while someone else was taking pictures...