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...wholesale leap into revolving credit is a gutsy move for American Express, whose recent ads have featured Jerry Seinfeld musing adenoidally about what the company has referred to in less lighthearted moments as the "evils of debt trap." AmEx's own maiden voyage into revolving credit -- with the launch of the Optima card in 1987 -- resulted in a plastic meltdown. The program quickly racked up $1.5 billion in unpaid charges, a figure twice the industry average, according to Robert McKinley, president of RAM Research Corp. Since March 1992, when the loss rate peaked at 12%, AmEx has wrestled bum credit...
...unidentified man, presumably the doctor's successor, into the building. A potentially more dangerous situation exists in Gulfport, Mississippi, where pro-life activists have vowed to begin a campaign against Dr. Joseph Booker, who they claim is the state's only full- time abortion doctor. It will be the maiden effort of the American Coalition of Life Activists, the group born at the Chicago conference. ACLA's leaders are displaying a nonviolence declaration signed by prospective members. Pro-choice activists and law-enforcement officials will be watching closely to see if they hold...
...very happy that the arm has been returned," Wren said. "And the maiden is happy to have her arm back...
Wren said his guess is that some Harvard student organization "which smokes cigars" took the arm from the approximately century-old maiden...
Wren, who has been in charge of renovating the 111-year-old store for about two years, re-attached the arm, which holds out wooden cigars, on Tuesday and also repainted the figure, brightening up the white-faced, bluedressed maiden...