Word: carded
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...While the Zune Marketplace is fairly similar to the iTunes Store, at least for music, Microsoft has introduced Microsoft Points in lieu of dollars and cents. As I understand it, this is a way to guarantee credit-card transactions of $5 or more - the minimum amount of points you can buy is 400, at that price. The trouble is, because there's an exchange rate of 80 points to the dollar, it's easy to think you're paying less than you really are: Tenacious D's new album lists for 1,200 points. That...
...Brooks had gone to Rochester at the urging of James Card, head of the George Eastman House film division, where she busied herself in research on silent films. It was there she found a second career, writing memoir-essays on her early days. These trenchant pieces, on Chaplin and W. C. Fields, Gish and Garbo, and of course Pabst and Pandora's Box, were collected in the volume Lulu in Hollywood, and proved Brooks a stranger creature than the moguls could imagine: a beauty with a brain. The flapper could write...
...Ortega's election has thrown a wild card into the real estate investment game. Some realtors claim property prices have already dipped 25% since he won the elections, but most expect the slide won't continue much beyond that. Of course, much depends on what happens next...
...Harvard team, however, still has a good chance of earning a wild-card berth to the world finals, depending on the outcomes of the other regional competitions...
...Harvard secures the wild-card berth, they will face strong competition from other countries. The past eight world champions have all come from foreign universities, including Saratov State University in Russia, Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China, and Warsaw University in Poland...