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...Americans save money and how much interest they earn. Consumers can expect to get better rates on the money they deposit, as large firms compete fiercely for business by offering the best deals possible. Customers will find attractive new services such as all-in-one accounts that lump together checking, money-market deposits, credit cards and stock transactions into a single financial pot. But consumers must be prepared to pay annual fees of up to $100 for the new accounts, and personal treatment may become a thing of the past as financial institutions automate services previously done by a teller...
...contract--which will probably be signed formally after review by lawyers next week--calls for Harvard to pay a lump sum of $2.6 million per year and to cover the plant's fuel costs, which fluctuate in the neighborhood of $5 million annually...
According to Saltonstall, the settlement came when Cambridge Steam officials unexpectedly lowered their demands for the lump sum payments by several hundred thousand dollars, and Harvard quickly agreed to the terms...
...stories are frank, sometimes brutal. In "The Honored Dead, "we see Eddie's corpse and pieces of another young body in plastic bags. And the protagonists inflict plain as well as suffer it. In "Hollow," the young man Buddy shoots a doe and indressing it cuts into" a swimming lump" an unborn fawn. The boatman in "A Room Forever" knows that he is physically hurting the young girl, "a kid playing whose, "who offers herself to him, but takes her just the same. Brutality isn't used for cheap thrills, though, but rather to sharpen the reader's awareness that...
...morale or working conditions at the company have suddenly deteriorated. Employees are thinking about leaving because management is tempting them with severance payments as high as half their annual salaries. Employees who are 55 or older with 21 or more years of service will get, on top of the lump-sum bonuses, at least 55% of the pension benefits they were expecting...