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...also amended its definition of total pay toinclude signing bonuses given to business schoolgraduates, and eliminated the practice ofmeasuring the number of recruiters to visit theschool...
Magazine publishers have landed a new way to shore up revenue: send the writers on vacation, and get people to pay to go with them. Inspired in part by the conservative National Review, which has dabbled in marketing vacations at sea since 1994, both the leftist Nation and the bookish New Yorker recently christened cruise-and-lecture ventures. Cosmopolitan and Town & Country are also thinking about casting off. Here's a quick guide to the seafaring 'zines...
...that most people--despite the prospect of playing with those pointy metal spears that, for reasons I can't understand, they allow prisoners to use--aren't too psyched on this picking-up-trash part. That's why the Adopt-a-Highway Litter Removal Service of America lets you pay them to do the charity work for you. In return, your corporation gets to put up a sign saying you like highways more than Somali orphans...
...life-insurance agent tells you to replace your policy with a new and improved one at no extra cost, be wary. A popular ruse, known as "churning," gives him a fat commission, but it uses the cash value of your policy to pay the initial costs of a larger one, and could soon mean bigger premiums. As part of a class action, millions of State Farm customers recently won a multimillion-dollar settlement after being taken by that phony pitch, among others. For added coverage, a separate, supplemental policy is better...
Telecom customers will soon have a new weapon in the fight against "slamming," the notorious practice in which a long-distance provider swipes your account without your permission--subjecting you to big charges. Under new FCC guidelines that take effect in the next two months, slamming victims can pay their chosen carrier at normal rates instead of paying the higher, disputed bill. Also, telcos will no longer be able to make a switch just because you failed to mail back a firm "no" to their offer...