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...fee of $30, Ace will advance cash for a $200 check for two weeks. That works out to an annual rate of 391%. Income from the company's lending operations jumped from 7% of its total revenue...
...created an unpopular and labyrinthine business bureaucracy in which 190 separate units handled interdepartmental dealings, especially those between the program commissioning and production sides. The Birt system was designed to instill accountability into an organization that got $3.4 billion of its $4.5 billion in annual revenues from a license fee levied on every TV-owning household, and had little respect for budgetary discipline. But the pendulum swung too far. Under Birt, as every department had to justify its costs, transfer pricing ballooned, and it became cheaper to go out and buy a music recording than to take...
...mayor's Barry-like acceptance of a white official's resignation after he came under fire for using the word niggardly. There's the mess those telecommunications companies have made of our downtown streets with the city, in classic Barry mode, not even charging them a reasonable fee to repair the damage. And there's the unsettling fact that after a decade of declines in the homicide rate, we've had 86 killings in the first 116 days of this year. At that accelerated pace, we could slip back to the Barry-like days when D.C. was known...
This is a sharp departure from the precedent set by the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS), which was funded by a $5 fee charged to all female undergraduates and made grant decisions without Faculty involvement...
Today you can take that same laptop with the Wi-Fi wireless network card to the Austin Bergstrom Airport, in Austin, Texas. For a fee, you can connect to the Wi-Fi-compatible network there and roar out onto the Internet. Or go to any one of 30 hotels in Tampa, Fla., Phoenix, Ariz., and Austin and get online wirelessly from your room. By year's end, more than 1,000 hotels and 25 major airports in the U.S. are expected to offer this service; a dozen airports in Europe will also have it and be compatible. I'm told...