Word: cards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...going to a restaurant, and buying some clothes at thrift shops, says Marc Eisenson, co-author of the new financial-management guide Invest in Yourself (John Wiley & Sons; $22.95). This also means cutting back on debt by paying off mortgages, winding down car payments and paying off credit-card bills. "The less debt you have, the more freedom you have," Eisenson says. "You don't have to earn the maximum amount of money if your overall expenses have been lowered...
...reform--unveiled an anti-Pallone "issue ad": the TV spot blasts Pallone's positions without explicitly advocating his defeat. Among other things, it accuses him of voting to raid the Social Security trust fund to pay for welfare. "Call Congressman Pallone," the announcer says, over a video of disreputable card sharks, "and tell him to...stop gambling with our futures." Pallone says the ad is false, but now he'll have to defend himself until Election Day. Americans for Job Security plans to spend $2 million to take him down...
Frustrated with their intransigence, Clinton finally pulled out a trump card: a badly weakened King Hussein of Jordan, in the U.S. for treatment of non-Hodgkins lymphoma. Gaunt and hairless, the King lectured the leaders and their aides. "You can't afford for this to fail," he said. "You owe this to your people, to your children, to future generations." For an hour afterward, his eloquence lifted the mood. When it waned, Clinton tried his own stagecraft. Patient and receptive so far, the President stormed out of the room just after midnight, looking at no one. "That was a powerful...
...plays its own disks. Divx decks plug into the TV, just like DVD drives. But they plug into the phone line too. When you first set up your deck, you must establish an account with Divx central--your machine calls a toll-free number, and you key in credit-card information. (The player automatically calls headquarters once or twice a month in the middle of the night, which I find creepy.) You see, rather than simply renting Divx disks, you buy them outright, for $4.50, and never return them to the store. You don't have to view them right...
...still have to register, but you can dothis over the phone with a credit card," Gonzalezsaid...