Word: payment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fixed- rate mortgages has already climbed from 6.75% late last year to 9.2%, which helped cut housing starts 5.2% last monthare preparing to scrimp on other spending. Two weeks ago, Denver lawyer Patrick Plank and his wife Betsy took out a 9.5% fixed-rate mortgage with a low down payment that they are using to buy an $85,000 town house. "Any interest rate in single digits still looks good," Plank says. But the cost of the mortgage is forcing him to keep his 1987 Toyota instead of trading it in for the newer model he covets...
...tell you that in the discussions we have had we are going to be paying about $500 more a year for no increase in services," Joan says. "We have always used HUGHP, and we've never had a co-payment before...
...loses his job last July in cutbacks at the troubled computer giant. In dismay over leaving IBM -- the company where both his parents spent their careers -- young man plunges into the harsh job market. But there the miraculous happens: after a flurry of interviews, he is hired by Electronic Payment Services, a start-up Delaware company that processes credit-card transactions, for substantially more than his old salary. "I never knew how marketable I was," says Peter Dychkewich, the hero of this story. "But then I floated my resume, and the job I have now came up rather quickly...
...customers. After that, the firms said, other credit card companies will also be able to use the software. That big-hearted clause drew grudging approval from MasterCard, Visa's main competitor, which said it was "committed to a strategy of supporting the consumers' ability to use card-based payment products anywhere, anytime they choose."Post your opinion on theNew Mediabulletin board.Last Night's TIME Daily
...Syria is not our only uncollateralized "investment in peace." Nor is it the most egregious example of up-front payment to a terrorist state in return for promises or promises of promises. The nuclear deal just concluded with North Korea earns that prize...