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...could soon be the way that Americans pay their taxes, if industry lobbyists prevail. But since card issuers charge an average of 16.5% while the irs extracts only 7% for late payments, consumer groups warn that taxpayers should be wary. So far, stiff interest rates have done little to curb the use of plastic. The number of Visa and MasterCards in use has climbed 3% in the past year, to 225 million, while credit-card transactions have jumped 7.3%, to 1.7 billion...
...Lots of people laughed. Lots of people smiled," said Eddie Ludwig, who carried the sign among a small band of demonstrators in downtown Portland. "I haven't had one negative response. I was expecting to get run off the curb...
...drivers were standing on the curb, unloading or loading the vehicle, when a man approached them and sprayed their faces with a chemical agent, according to Detective Frank Pasquarello of the Cambridge Police Department...
...April 22,1969, attendance at the Facultymeeting was so high that professors had to meet inthe Loeb Theater. Once there, the faculty rejectedthe Rosovsky committee's proposal for a committeeon degrees and voted Afro-American studies fulldepartment status while a first-year with ameat-cleaver sat on the curb outside...
...imports of Taiwan's wildlife products, including snakeskin shoes and lizard handbags. The value of such imports runs about $25 million a year -- a tiny part of America's $25 billion annual trade with Taiwan. But if the sanctions do not spur the country to curb its illicit dealing in endangered species, the trade restrictions could be broadened. And environmentalists will consider any penalties a major victory. Last summer the Administration declared that Norway had violated U.S. law by hunting minke whales, but then failed to follow through with sanctions...