Word: debts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...glutted $700 billion marketplace, lenders are suddenly jacking up interest rates, slapping on new fees and pulling back benefits. In September, GE Capital, the finance arm of General Electric, warned holders of its GE Rewards MasterCard to expect a $25 annual penalty unless they racked up some interest-bearing debt. Two weeks later General Motors chopped in half the discounts that holders of its gold cards can get when purchasing new GM cars and trucks...
...while paying their bills in full each month. Industrywide, only 36% of cardholders pay off their balances each month. Although AT&T officials say they have no plans to dock card users for paying up, the company is pondering other ways to persuade the holders to take on more debt...
...inhibitor treatment. But he's not quite sure what to do with his newfound life. "I ran up all these charges on credit cards thinking that I would not be around to pay them," he says. Not only does he now have to figure out how to retire his debt, but he and his life partner have to readjust to the idea that they may grow old together. "You feel dazed being back in society again," he says. "People don't know what you've been through...
...shadowy myth figure than living historical presence. Maybe that's because he died when he was only 31 years old, his work and personality still unfinished, therefore not fully knowable or easily summarizable. Maybe it's because Ireland, despite its bloody history, is a conservative country, uncomfortable in its debt to a founding father whose greatest gift was for violence. And maybe all that is about to change. For Michael Collins the enigma is now Michael Collins the movie--a $30 million epic by writer-director Neil Jordan, auteur previously of The Crying Game and currently firm in his insistence...
This resort to cliche--the director also owes a debt to Francis Ford Coppola, whose Godfather technique of crosscutting between scenes of intense violence and blissful ordinariness he borrows--is matched by a taste for dubious historical speculation. Seeking to disarm critics on that score, Jordan has owned up to the usual minor sins of historical fiction: conflating characters, telescoping events, making reasonable guesses about unknown motives. But it would seem he has gone further than that...