Word: interest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think Harvard students are smart enough to understand 20 percent interest and the fact that if you're going to make the minimum payment, you're going to be paying for a long time," he jokes...
...full 77 percent of undergraduates at four-year colleges and universities have credit cards, according to data compiled by Consolidated Credit Counseling Services, Inc. (CCCS), a company that helps students with serious debt by securing them lower interest rates, along with credit counseling...
Gorey's taste for deadpan absurdity is sharpened by what he has called his "unreasonable interest in surrealism and Dada." He is a great fan of surrealist Max Ernst, and, just as Ernst rearranged 19th-century engravings into his own fantastic collages, Gorey recombines the elements of forgotten Victorian novels, reshuffling the set pieces and stock characters after his fancy. One of my favorites, The Object-Lesson, is constructed along these lines, piling delicious non sequitur on delicious non sequitur, like this: "It was already Thursday, but his lordship's artificial limb could not be found; therefore, having directed...
...relations with him were always the same as anybody, anybody who came into his orbit. Reagan had no interest in individual human character. Therefore it was all one, whether the Biographer walked into the oval office, or a Labor Union leader, or the President of Bangladesh. So I never got past that genial...
...Alexander Hunter is shielding the well-to-do ? and well-connected ? Ramseys from the brunt of the investigation. The grand jury, however, could find nothing with which to nail them ? or anyone else. Now it looks as if JonBenet's death, for nearly three years the subject of national interest ? and obsession ? will become a matter for state investigators. At this stage, whatever trail of evidence there might have been has surely run as cold as the upcoming Colorado winter...