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...home-equity credit line. Interest on these home loans is still fully deductible. Customers can therefore get a credit line against their homes that permits them to run up as much as $100,000 in interest-deductible card charges. But, warns Edward Kramer, senior vice president for the Dime Savings Bank of New York, which offers such a Visa card, "it's important to remember that this is a lien on your home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Charge of The Plastic Brigade | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

...would withhold the $40 million remaining of the $100 million appropriated last year, was an artful ploy linking opposition to the contras with congressional disgust over the Tower commission's revelations about the Administration's inept and probably illegal efforts on behalf of the contras. "Before we send another dime to the contras," said the bill's chief sponsor, Democrat David Bonior of Michigan, "we must know where the previous funds have gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congress Shows Its Impatience | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

...Hrkac] is extremely quick," Marsh said. "He can just take off on a dime...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NCAA Hockey Tourney Wrap | 3/21/1987 | See Source »

Though the whole petty scenario evokes a kind of low-budget replay of one of the Godfather movies, it is not clear whether Philadelphians are more surprised by the nickel-dime size of the alleged gifts or by what appears to be the extraordinary pervasiveness of the practice. But there is little doubt around the city about the damage to the administration of justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Philadelphia Takes a Fall | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

...machine only accepts change--exact change at that. No fives, no ones and no change machines for five dollar bills. Quite often, the dollar bill changer is broken too, meaning that to use the machines, you must be carrying around 17 quarters, a dime and a nickel...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Of Parks and Post Offices | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

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