Word: borrower
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...independent counsel. And Thompson has suggested that there still may be questions worth raising about how the White House handled the firing of its travel office or how it gathered FBI files on prominent Republicans. With so many possible transgressions for him to probe, Thompson may want to borrow his favorite line as Die Hard 2's unflappable Dulles Airport chief air-traffic controller: "Stack 'em, pack 'em and rack...
Dickerson said opponents of same-sex marriages might borrow strategy from the Congressional debate on DOMA for future court battles...
...Wigglesworth incident, Donaldson noted, the attackers first claimed to be Harvard students and asked to borrow $5. They later returned to demand more money...
Banks in particular are willing to deal because credit cards, even those with "low" interest rates, remain the most profitable assets in their portfolios. The math is relatively simple: banks borrow money from the government at 5%; the average card carries a 17.54% annual charge. The difference between the two is called the spread, for obvious reasons. In addition, card issuers typically charge merchants some 2% to 3% of the amount of each purchase that a customer makes. Throw in late fees, or in GE's case early fees, and margins might be enhanced further. "Banks earn more from credit...
...Russia's looming debt crisis by dodging their taxes. On Friday, he intends to broadcast the second of his radio talks, explaining what measures the government will take to up its income. Yeltsin is reacting to unprecedented shortfalls which have pushed the Finance Ministry to cut expenditures and borrow more money just to keep the government functioning. Tax evasion is rife in Russia, where the Tax Inspectorate agency is both inefficient and unable to cope with the demands placed on it by the developing market economy. But the reluctance of Russian business to pay its taxes...