Word: dinged
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Credit-card companies are constantly adjusting their rates, penalties and fees, and understanding all the ways they ding you requires ever more diligence. Disclosures now run 20 pages on average, up from one page a decade ago. And though late fees are hardly new, since the mid-'90s they have tripled, to about $30 on average--commonly going as high as $39. "Sure, they send you notification," says Adam Levin, founder of Credit.com a consumer-education website. "But your eyes just glaze over...
...Sinatra's sensuality and swagger. Resourcefully backed by the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra (at times cut down to nifty combos), Pizzarelli is at his best in hip readings of the insouciant Yes Sir, That's My Baby, the wistful If I Had You and even the trademark Ring a Ding Ding...
...RIDE THEM? Lightweight, highly durable and ding-resistant--but the pros aren't biting...
...meeting held at the home of Jose Cojuangco, brother of former Philippine President Corazon Aquino, where a possible plan for a "withdrawal of support" from President Arroyo was being discussed. More than a dozen middle-level politicians and businessmen, including current Representative Robert Jaworski, Jr. and former Representative Ding Tanjuatco, were in and out of the meeting, which ran well past 1 a.m. While one of Cojuangco's daughters kept a buffet table piled high with chicken sandwiches, macaroni salad, corn and cookies, Pastor Saycon, a businessman and longtime Arroyo critic, discussed a new government. As the others listened, Saycon...
...click a button that reads "élite bodyguards" and the screen fills with photos of bare-chested men flexing their pecs. Still, the majority of Chinese bodyguards are freelancers; typically ex-soldiers, ex-police or graduates of martial-arts academies, they find work through friends or former teachers. Ding Zhongmin, a kickboxing expert who runs the Yingcai Bodyguard Training Center in Nanjing, says he schools 100 bodyguards a year in everything from punching to "polite conversation and what you should wear in an office." Clients often hire Ding and his students to resolve business disputes that in many countries would...