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...their balances each month are known in the industry's distorted parlance as "deadbeats" because they avoid steep interest charges. GE, which offers its Reward cardholders cash rebates worth as much as 2% of their purchases, put the deadbeats on notice last month with its $25 prompt-payment fee. "If there is not a tremendous consumer backlash," says Susswein, "we will see more companies punish cardholders for paying in full...
...Prompt payers have also bedeviled AT&T's Universal Card subsidiary and helped spur the recent resignation of David Hunt as president of the unit. Analysts say roughly 60% of the Universal Card's 18.3 million accounts were held by convenience users who took advantage of free lifetime memberships and other benefits while paying their bills in full each month. Industrywide, only 36% of cardholders pay off their balances each month. Although AT&T officials say they have no plans to dock card users for paying up, the company is pondering other ways to persuade the holders to take...
...member SAS wrote to Queen Noor in March and were excited to receive a prompt acceptance of the invitation the following month, said SAS Vice-President Muna G. Sukhtian...
Students can vote for their house or Yard district representatives by logging into the "fas" network and typing "ucvote" at a "%" prompt...
...same serious drawback. Because they target all dividing cells, they also kill off normal tissue in the skin, hair and bone marrow. The next generation of anticancer agents, however, promises to be much more selective. By targeting oncogenes, for example, researchers hope to switch off the signals that prompt cancer cells to divide in the first place. Particularly promising is a class of drugs known as farnesyltransferase inhibitors, which have been shown to shrink tumors while sparing normal tissues. "Oncology is not a profession that inspires optimism," admits Dr. Allen Oliff, director of cancer research at Merck & Co. "But these...