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...wrong reasons. But my father votes in the majority for the same reason the majority does: he likes the winner better. "I vote for the best man regardless of the party," says my old man. His method is not scientific. He may watch a debate--and zip around the dial during the lulls. He doesn't really vote his pocketbook, at least not in a what's-in-it-for-me way. "I want someone who I think is talking to me," he says...
...Competition for down-market customers and the profits they generate is intensifying among big mortgage providers like GE Capital, Norwest Financial, KeyCorp, NationsBank and Chase Manhattan, not to mention heavily advertised smaller outfits like the Money Store (Dial 1-800-LOAN-YES). The total for sub-prime mortgages--a figure that is growing at twice the rate of conventional mortgages--is expected to exceed $120 billion this year. Another blistering market: sub-prime cash for new and used cars. Ford Motor Co.'s Associates Corp.; Mercury Finance, based in Lake Forest, Illinois; Credit Acceptance Corp. of Southfield, Michigan; and other...
HomeLink allows you to use a modem to connect to BankBoston's encrypted dial-up system. (You can't access HomeLink over the Internet, yet.) Enter your PIN code, and you're ready...
...based. Last week Murdoch filed a $2 billion antitrust suit and enlisted Mayor Rudolph Giuliani to help pressure Time Warner. Company executives are standing firm; they point out that Fox is just one of many cable programmers that have been denied a spot on the crowded cable dial in New York. On Friday Time Warner won a temporary restraining order to bar Giuliani from putting Fox on one of the channels reserved for city...
...cuts reflect a lack of understanding of newspapers' unique needs. At the Inquirer, which won 17 Pulitzer Prizes in 18 years under its former editor, Eugene Roberts Jr., staff members cite attempted cost-reducing measures that range from ridiculous to troubling: last year reporters were told they could not dial directory assistance, and at one brief point all long-distance calls were banned, as was travel to New York City, all of two hours away. "Morale has been low, there's no denying that," says the paper's executive editor, Robert Rosenthal...