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...They owe me almost $350,” she said. “I need [the] job to help pay for school...
...studios headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, that sells to expectant mothers ultrasound portraits of their babies while they are still in the womb. The chain is the largest of perhaps two dozen similar businesses cropping up at strip malls and on street-corners around the country. They owe their popularity to improvements in the software used to create ultrasound images. Mothers willing to give $150 and 30 minutes of their time to Fetal Fotos walk away with a framed, 3-D snapshot of their unborn babies so clear that facial features--and often gender--are discernible. Most outlets also...
...just stars who are at risk, of course. In Bombay, in any stratum, survival often means keeping up with transient gangster bosses. Local toughs enslave the poor, taking a cut on everything from beggars to brothels. The thugs owe their power to their bosses, who call themselves Bhai, or brother, and live abroad in Pakistan, Dubai, Kenya, New Jersey?far beyond the reach of Indian police. From these lavish lairs the mobsters run their empires?and, if the Shakeel tapes are to be believed, they run up hefty bills with cell-phone calls to Bollywood royalty. Few stars can escape...
...PARTIAL PAYMENT. If you have an fha mortgage, your lender may be willing to let you make a partial payment--say, $700 instead of the full $1,000 you owe--without changing the terms of your mortgage. You typically can't do that with a conventional loan. But if you call and say you've missed a payment, your lender may tell you that you can make that payment up by spreading it over the next few months...
...continue to pay at your current rate but you can pay something, your lender will generally try to work with you to come up with a payment that you can afford. This works a bit like a refi without going through that process. You'll pay back what you owe, but you may do it over a longer period of time or at a lower interest rate...