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Judging from the cascade of credit-card offers in your mailbox, you would think there is plenty of competition in the industry. Banks have been leaping over one another to grab more of what industry types call "wallet share"--a bigger chunk of the 80% of U.S. households that already carry plastic. So banks pick fights with other banks. Special, predatory offers abound--2.87 billion mailings in 1999 alone. "Competition doesn't get any better than this," says David Robertson, president of the Nilson Report, a credit-card-industry newsletter...
...disposal), expect imitators. Now that the markets are in the middle of a bear/bull/correction/shakeout, the glower power of investors is peaking. When a company gets too big for consumers' good, the feds start in; when a company gets too big for its own bottom line, that's when investors grab the cleaver...
...After two heart-in-throat, grab-the-oxygen-mask sessions, the biggest uncertainty in Wall Street investors' minds Friday was apparently about their blood pressure...
...goal, staffers said, is to make one final grab for young independent voters and women. Twenty-nine of the nation's Republican governors have also been recruited for the effort...
...Lehigh on its first possession, Morris was back deep to return the punt. Lehigh's Jay Heibel kicked a low ball, which Morris let bounce in front of him. Unfortunately, footballs do not bounce like baseballs, and instead of letting it roll, Morris made a feeble attempt to grab it in front of three Lehigh players. He managed to deflect it right into the hands of the opposition...