Word: interest
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...intra-system mavericks like Bradley and McCain pressing real plans for campaign finance reform, and beyond pitch-perfect radicals like Pat Buchanan, who play to the angriest elements of our electorate because they reliably come out and vote. The key to a successful third party is igniting the interest of those who think but do not vote, not pandering to those who vote without thinking...
...plan to buy I-bonds, do it before Nov. 1, when yields get reset. I-bonds have two elements: a guaranteed 3.3% interest rate and the rate of inflation, last counted at 1.75% (for a total 5.05% yield). The inflation rate is going higher, and will be applied to old and new bonds. But the guaranteed part may go lower on the new bonds. Buy now, and lock in the old guarantee...
...Americans forfeit $150 million a year by mistiming sales. Savings bonds bought before May 1995 pay interest only twice a year. The best time to redeem them is immediately after interest has been credited...
...last savings bonds you should sell are any bought between October 1994 and April 1995. At the five-year mark, they carry an unusual one-time kicker that amounts to six months of interest...
...series to its fledgling FX cable network for a puny $400,000 per episode. (ER, by way of comparison, was sold into syndication to TNT for $1.2 million a show.) Not only did Fox fail to shop NYPD Blue to other prospective buyers, Bochco alleges, but the studio hid interest from other networks so it could supply its own cable channel on the cheap. This isn't the first such case brought against a media giant. Disney settled a similar suit from the producers of Home Improvement, and actor DAVID DUCHOVNY has another pending against Fox over...