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...this happening? Consumers, feeling less flush than they did in recent years, say using a debit card helps them manage their money better. "It doesn't allow them to overspend," says Richard Crone, a Dove vice president. And while writing checks serves the same purpose, it's a much bigger hassle for you--and it's much less profitable for the banks. They make 60[cents] in merchant fees, on average, every time you sign for a debit-card purchase. And they don't face the risk of nonpayment posed by credit-card transactions. That's why they're giving...
...years to come - have prompted the bond markets to bid up long-term interest rates up nearly a full percentage point since early November. Long-term interest rates, of course, are otherwise known as mortgage rates - the ones that keep consumers buying homes, refinancing mortgages and generally feeling flush. They have an annoying tendency to act independently of Greenspan's wishes. And expensive money for borrowing consumers - and borrowing corporations - are nobody's idea of economic rocket fuel...
...Like Foster, Berlin adapted some of his early hits from Negro music. And in his first flush of success, 90 years ago, he wrote so prolifically (averaging a new published song a week) that it was rumored "a little colored boy" was the real composer of "Alexander's Ragtime Band" and other syncopated hits. (Berlin's response, noted in Lawrence Bergreen's excellent biography "As Thousands Cheer": "Do you realize how many little nigger boys I'd have to have?") The simple fact is that he wrote fast. In 1946, when he accepted the job of doing the music...
...Naturally I told them to flush the radiator,” Davis said...
...Saving Social Security. Nursing Medicare. Boosting homeland defense - this one gets included to keep Democrats seeming current - and education, and reining in Bush's rapacious energy program. And putting them all up against tax cuts as a simple choice: Invest in America's future - the fiscally sound way - or flush it all down the drain. These issues have polled positively for Democrats since Bill Clinton, and their Republican colleagues still haven't grown any Bush coattails. And if Daschle figures if he can play tax cuts to a stalemate when Republicans have the House and the White House, he might...