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That could have helped avert Janet Hard's nightmare. The 42-year-old nurse from Freeland, Mich., says Discover raised the rate on her card from 7.9% in 2000 to 24.4% in February 2007, a period when she was charging her family of four's dentist bills to the card since they have no dental insurance. "When I look at the money that we have paid to Discover during just the last two years, I feel sick. Of the $5,618 made in payments to Discover, $3478.39 went to interest," Hard testified at a Senate hearing in December. "My husband...
...going to be significantly higher," says John V. Mitchell, an OPEC expert and associate fellow at Chatham House in London. That realization deepened this week when OPEC's president, Algeria's Oil Minister Chakib Khelil, rebuffed President Bush's appeal for OPEC to boost production and so help avert a U.S. recession by easing oil prices on the world market. Instead Khelil said that production quotas for its 13 members - who supply about 40% of the world's oil - will "either decrease or be stable" when OPEC oil ministers next meet in Vienna on March 5. Adding to the jitters...
...Unsettling hints accrue - of incest, narcotics and faked illnesses - and Noriko finds herself increasingly unable to avert her eyes and continue believing in her fairy-tale in-laws. Their cloying, plastic adulation begins to suffocate. Occasional outings with her blunt-spoken high school friend Tomomi, who enjoys a Sex and the City lifestyle as a single woman working in central Tokyo, living alone and puffing cigs at noisy cafés, heighten Noriko's sense of entrapment. Her life is like a pachinko game: she's the silver ball, pinging between her once happy but now cultish family...
...Barings' cash reserves. Leeson was jailed for more than three years in Singapore, and the scandal became almost synonymous with the power of a lone employee to unravel a large company. At the time, officials at various banks said they were tightening internal security measures in order to avert a similar disaster...
...lead the world if we’re so dedicated to our head-in-the-sand, ostrich policy?” Kerry, the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee and Massachusetts’ junior senator, had harsh words for the Bush administration, accusing it of failing to take meaningful steps to avert climate change. “We don’t have time to screw around with this,” Kerry said. “They are avoiding this in the most shocking and inappropriate way.” Kerry was no less severe with Congress, taking it to task...