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...called smart cards. Together they represent 9% of total consumer payment transactions and are expected to reach 15% by 2001. Besides taxicabs and newsstands, credit cards are employed in parking garages and movie theaters and could soon be the way that Americans pay their taxes, if industry lobbyists prevail. But since card issuers charge an average of 16.5% while the irs extracts only 7% for late payments, consumer groups warn that taxpayers should be wary. So far, stiff interest rates have done little to curb the use of plastic. The number of Visa and MasterCards in use has climbed...
Fortunately, there is some hope that reason will prevail. The Coop was founded by students, and in keeping with that tradition, 11 of the 23-person Board of Directors are Harvard and MIT students. Many of them joined the Board not only to gain experience in running a business, but in order to make sure that the Coop serves the needs of students...
Harvard was coming off two big wins against Princeton and West Virginia and at the outset of the Yale match it looked like the Crimson would prevail again, despite the absence of its three top players...
Harvard was coming off two big wins against Princeton and West Virginia and at the outset of the Yale match it looked like the Crimson would prevail again, despite the absence of its three top players...
...side of romance, Sondheim's script and score revert to a more optimistic vision. HRDC's Night Music loses track of the inevitable happy ending and plays with conflicts as if they may never be resolved. All too often the players dwell heavily on melancholy as if it may prevail, rather than as a comedic device that the audience can see through to a festive conclusion...