Word: cards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...noting that most banks provide ATMs free to their own customers and thus must find some other way to recover the cost of deploying the machines. "In San Francisco," says Bank of America spokesman Peter Magnani, "there is no charge 80% of the time when someone puts a card in a B. of A. machine." Moreover, he says, the cost of the transaction is just a small part of the bank's expenses, which include purchasing, installing and maintaining the machines as well as paying rent at nonbank locations. "Banks are being singled out for special treatment," Magnani says. "What...
...Internet. Perhaps not the best strategy for rectifying a relationship that by her admission is a "bit estranged," but one nevertheless that may fetch her some extra cash. Among the items Jaid is offering are baby clothes, including an undershirt decorated with baby chicks and ducks, a Christmas card sent by Jack Nicholson and the red cowboy hat Drew wore in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. The last item has an asking price of $45,000. In explaining the raid on her attic, Jaid said, "Drew is such a special, amazing, magical person. I decided to put some of her things...
...earning (and spending) surge could cause the Fed to once again tighten its grip on the money supply. Alan Greenspan and the boys raised rates last week but signaled they were probably done tinkering until this whole Y2K thing blows over. But just as certainly as the credit card bills will come due in January, the Fed will reevaluate its position in the next year, and may feel that another rate hike will be necessary to keep everything on an even keel. Still, January's a long way from now, and until then it looks as if the economic...
...Chitow Oakes, coo of ad agency FlyCast. "It doesn't seem like advertising if you're interested in it." For example, DoubleClick has 50 million active cookies, which means that 50 million people see at least one targeted ad a month. This prolific snooping is nothing new. Credit-card companies have been building databases for years and offering deals based on your spending habits...
Most psychologists see Pokemon as relatively harmless but warn of a need to be wary. A child who spends too much time on video games may not disengage from a simulated world and thus may be confused in the real one. And while card trading teaches social skills, it may also lead to obsessive behavior. "You don't know whether there's a valuable card in a pack when you buy it," says Maressa Hecht Orzack, founder of the Computer Addiction Service at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass. Children under eight aren't able to grasp this fact cognitively, which...