Word: payments
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...spenders seem to be putting off the day of reckoning. Meredith Richman, 28, a developer of computer programs in New York City, is one of them. Richman "maxed out" the $6,000 credit line on her American Express Optima card this year by charging a $3,000 income tax payment along with her rent and a $1,700 computer. "It doesn't matter, though," says Richman, who has rolled over unpaid balances to new cards three times this year. "I can always get other cards...
Legal issues aside, the revelations of behind-the-scenes dealmaking at 60 Minutes disturbed many journalists at CBS. Paying consulting fees to outside "experts" who help on stories is not uncommon in TV news; but some questioned whether, in this case, the payment compromised both Wigand and CBS. What most appalled some at CBS News was the notion that 60 Minutes would give a source veto power over whether to run his interview. One senior CBS producer expressed outrage that the 60 Minutes journalists would go on talk shows and cloak themselves in the First Amendment when they...
...remind Perot's followers of why they rejected both parties in the first place, there is the prospect this week of a partial shutdown of the Federal Government or a temporary default on U.S. debt payment. Both could happen if the President vetoes the temporary debt-limit extension that the Republican Congress has put before him, and that requires him to approve their budget proposals. This is macho, partisan face-off time. If you're a Perot voter, or even if you're not, there could hardly be a better example of Beltway fecklessness...
...That co-payment would have been an enormous burden," Gould said. "We often forget how our constituencies have different concerns...
...issues detailed in the science policy report included a reversal of Harvard's practice of refusing to accept stock in lieu of licensing fees if the payment of such fees would be impractical--as in the case of small, start-up companies...