Word: payments
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Home banking is the "second wave" in this automation revolution. On-line bill payment decreases check-processing costs for banks, and every customer who tracks his or her balance through a home computer makes it one less person who needs to call a customer service phone number...
...resident said he received a message on his answering machine from the suspect who stated that he never received payment for the siding, and would be coming to remove...
Many are offshoots of Optima, the company's first credit card. (The venerable green and gold cards are not credit cards that can carry over a balance but charge cards that require payment-in-full each month.) Want to earn discounts on golf lessons or a new set of clubs, for example? The American Express Golf Card, an Optima card issued with Callaway Golf, was designed for that. Or how about dollars off hotel rooms or a chance to rack up frequent-flyer miles? Among other programs, American Express offers Hilton Optima and Delta AirLines Skymiles cards...
...tough love came as the U.N. General Assembly meekly offered a biannual budget that, at $2.532 billion, is even lower than Republicans in Congress had demanded. Meanwhile, Jesse Helms is no closer to allowing payment of a cent of the $1.3 billion U.S. arrears. No wonder the Europeans got upset. This is what was known in the 1960s as "delinquent diplomacy." Back then it was much frowned on by Washington, who publicly lambasted the Soviets for practicing it. It's ironic they should now receive the same scolding themselves. How the mighty have fallen ? into debt...
...campaign centers on a $450,000 advance that Chubais and four colleagues split between them for a book on privatization. The book payment, Chubais' enemies allege, is a disguised bribe. Chubais' defense has been slow and largely unconvincing. His share, $90,000, is chump change in a country in which a few years ago the new Prime Minister found that Russia's entire foreign-currency reserve was missing, and in which the oligarchs have become overnight billionaires in shadowy privatization deals. But it was enough to shatter Chubais' image of probity. His enemies are putting out the word that they...