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...save. "I should be able to retire," he acknowledges. "Due to my own stupidity, I can't. But it's expensive to raise a family, buy a home, all that stuff." A big source of Alexander's problems is his puny pension benefit of just $130 a month. With modest savings and monthly Social Security benefits of just $1,040, things are tight, even with his $28,000-a-year...
...that they have begun seeping out of this famously buttoned-up White House. Lindsey can roll his eyes when asked about O'Neill's latest unscripted remark. And according to allies, he has complained that Hubbard's status quo views have persuaded the President to reject as interventionist even modest new policy steps. The President's top economists, says a senior Administration official, "disagree on the analysis before they ever get to the remedies...
...service, quirky advertising and the convenience of around-the-clock access. "Pricing's really the thing that keeps them in the game," says Matt Stamski, a senior analyst at Gomez, an Internet consultancy. Egg offers an interest-free, six-month introductory period on its credit card, and afterward a modest annual percentage rate (A.P.R.) of 13.9%. Smile gives current-account holders a credit-card rate of 9.9%; non-account holders pay 12.9%. High Street banks' credit-card A.P.R.s are as high as 24.9% on a standard card. The big banks are hardly standing still. Barclays, for example, invested $468 million...
...America needs to get out of its machismo psychology...and become a more modest country. Sweden doesn’t worry about terror,” Zinn said...
...ancient heritage appears to have been washed away with the changing course of the Yalu, the discerning eye may yet spot a stretch of ancient city wall among the lines and angles of more modern structures. For those less observant but able to read Chinese, a modest sign at the bus terminal marks a low stone wall as the last remains of Guonei, once the primary fortress of the Koguryo capital...