Word: flier
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Strauss says most of the people she comes in contact with who want to use a credit card hope to capture those benefits--to nab what could be 31,000 extra frequent-flier miles for a year of schooling or a 2 percent cash back on purchases. (Hey, $620 makes a difference...
...costs were quite substantial and far in excess, from a corporate perspective, of any benefit that the institution could derive," says Thomas S. McGurty, vice president for finance and treasurer at Tufts. "I think many people, quite frankly, were using [the payment option] to realize frequent flier miles. It just didn't make economic sense for the institution as a whole...
...Look for a card with perks you'll use. Many cards come with features like frequent flier miles, dollars toward music and musical equipment, free movie passes or restaurant and hotel discounts, that accumulate with each dollar charged. Find one that offers something you spend money on already...
...horizon, looking for anything that might threaten their business and profits ? and when they see something, they make a move to head off that potential threat." All this paranoia seems unreasonable to most U.S. consumers, to whom comparison shopping - and the freebies that come with it, like frequent flier miles - are taken for granted. While the German businesses? aggressive stance has been upheld consistently by the country?s highest courts, some companies, like American Express, have taken their appeals to the European Commission. If the E.C. doesn't grant German consumers a little taste of a free market, watch...
...what is the glorious Resume Contest award? A plum position at a fancy New York firm? A paid political vacation in Washington, D.C.? "Three winners," the flier promises, "one from each year, will receive a $50.00 prize!" Here our hearts sink. After all, it was merely months ago that certain companies, running their own private resume contests, were offering a $50,000 prize. (The superfluous zeroes on the poster are part of the tease.) And then we get to the fine print: "As part of a larger research project on career choices by organizational researchers, a resume contest will...