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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Credit-card holders who let their monthly bills collect dust are paying a high price for tardiness. That's the conclusion of a new Consumer Action study, which shows that banks have increased late fees 75% since 1995, to $21 on average. To avoid stiff penalties, according to Bank Rate Monitor, try a local credit union or a low-fee national lender like Cleveland's Metropolitan Savings Bank or Chicago's Pullman Bank & Trust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Money: Nov. 23, 1998 | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

...perpetually reinvent one's avatar: photos and drawings, bonnets and six-guns, mascots and blackboards, halos and bongs. Palace vets amass hoards of props and trade them like baseball cards. Sites on the indispensable A-to-Z List of active palaces blare come-ons like HUGE PROP MALL! Collect enough props and build a cool palace, and you can stage a runway show in your own private Versailles. "Vanity pages built the Web," says Randy Farmer, co-founder of Electric Communities, the company that bought the Palace earlier this year and is behind its latest resurgence. "And vanity servers will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Web's Next Wave of Fun | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

...tickets will be sold to students for $2.Resolution sponsors T. Christopher King '00 andRyan E. Dorris '00 said that a council memberwould ride on each of the buses beginning in themid-morning to collect tickets and insure that theproblems which arose last year do not come upagain...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Council Finds Forgotten $40K In Bank Account | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

...deal. And I will collect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gene Simmons | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

...spokesman, who was among the guests on the show. "I would like to thank all those taking part for everything that they have said and done," the Pope told the show's shocked host, Bruno Vespa. Visibly moved and more than a little flummoxed, Vespa took a moment to collect himself before finally murmuring, "Even journalists have a soul every so often." Sometimes it just takes a little papal intervention to prove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 26, 1998 | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

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