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...typically pile up when more consumers are late to pay or exceed their credit limit?thus triggering a higher rate?are feeding a consumer backlash that is gaining strength. In 2007, 11,427 people filed complaints with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, which oversees bank-issued cards???a 13% increase over...
...with desperate retailers for the attentions of holiday audiences. Between the office party, the school pageant and the search for the elusive Wii, who has time for a meet-and-greet with one candidate? And who can volunteer to stuff envelopes at campaign headquarters when there are dozens of cards??waiting to be finished off--O.K., started--at home...
...chief defense against such mistakes is a scientist's reverence for facts. Because he detests canned, military-style briefings, he insists on reading the background studies and documents himself before making a decision. As he zips through them?nearly as fast, it sometimes seems, as a computer scans punch cards???he pencils questions and comments along the margins in his almost microscopic handwriting. Next he peppers the Pentagon's experts with still more questions, until he is satisfied that he has squeezed the subject dry. "No one can snow him," boasts an aide...
...friends. Said Henry W. Jacovy, manager of the home: "I don't think people realized how much the post office really meant until the strike. Yesterday one of our old people had a birthday anniversary and didn't get a single card. Usually there aren't that many cards???maybe three or four?but they mean...
...President's shoulder perched a vulture. In one hand the President held a fishing rod with a sucker on the line, in the other a bouquet of microphones. Mrs. Roosevelt stood beside him, her teeth and chin cruelly caricatured. The New Deal was represented by scattered playing cards???all deuces. Elliott Roosevelt and Anna Roosevelt Dall were seen tossing their respective spouses, portrayed as dolls, into a trash basket...