Word: cents
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...long run, Harvard students should at least get the same 9 cent-a-minute rate after 5 p.m. that MIT students receive. In addition, Harvard should give its students a flat rate across the country, like most long-distance carriers, and do away with the current system where distance as well as time of day go into calculating the price. As well as simplifying the rate schedule, it would be a step into the modern age; Harvard is a national university, not a regional one, and should structure its prices accordingly...
Recently, MIT students got a major decrease in their long distance rates when the institute negotiated with AT&T to get a flat rate of 20 cents during the day and a 9 cent rate after...
Quittner states that somebody ran up a $3,000 bill on a duplicate of his credit card, that "the nice lady from the fraud division of the credit-card company took care of it..." and that he never lost a cent. It may be constructive to take the situation a bit further and figure out who did lose. My husband and I own a small business, and more than once we have had to deal with that "nice lady from the credit-card company" who tells us we have to absorb the loss. Even when insurance covers part...
...thing a Congressman hates, it's looking like a tool of big business ? especially when it's a business as unpopular as Big Tobacco. Although a provision was quietly slipped into last month's tax-cut legislation allowing tobacco companies to use the cost of a gradual 15-cent per pack increase ? some $50 billion ? as a credit towards the proposed $368.5 billion national settlement, Senators began to disown the plan once it was made public. Wednesday, the Senate overwhelmingly voted to squash it altogether. "This is the kind of thing that no Congressman wants to go on the record...
Herman noted in a holiday weekend address that even though businesses were forced to swallow the first stage of the minimum wage increase ??a 50-cent boost ? last October, the economy is "in better shape than in many, many years." America's lowliest workers are now making $5.15, and unemployment is at a 24-year low. Conveniently, most CEOs also were off enjoying a long weekend, so nobody was around to rebut...