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...Fargo offers a checking account that, after an allotted three free calls, charges customers 50[cents] to use its automated-voice-response telephone lines or $1.50 to speak to an agent to shift funds or ask questions. In a study of 470 banks released this month, USPIRG reported a rapid increase in the number of banks that impose a surcharge on noncustomers using their ATMs. Furthermore, bigger banks surcharge more often, and these fees average $1.35 more than small-bank surcharges...
...ATMs by charging $3 for a visit to a live teller for some transactions. First Chicago announced a merger last week with Banc One Corp. Banc One, based in Columbus, Ohio, does business in 12 states and charges account holders if they use one of its own Rapid Cash Machines. "[The banks] say these mergers create efficiencies," says Mary Griffin of Consumers Union. "But with the efficiencies there is a dis-economy of scale, which costs consumers more." In other words, it costs to save. That's one reason why many consumers now "bank" at the growing number of check...
University of Florida Professor Mark Brenner joined the class for the remainder of the project. An expert on limnology and paleoecology, Brenner has joined ESPP students at Archbold for several years. Brenner writes in an e-mail that the planning exercise "requires students to make a rapid assessment of issues in Highlands County and [to] develop a future land-use plan based on considerations of ecological principles, economic realities, a knowledge of stakeholder interests (e.g. retirees, citrus agriculture, ranchers, etc.) and social issues...
Asked why Howes was killed, Panna said, "That was Pol Pot's rule. He didn't want any foreigners involved in our society." It was of course this hostility to outsiders that kept the Khmer Rouge stuck in the jungle while the rest of Cambodia benefited from rapid economic development fueled in part by foreign investment. And it was resentment at missing out on this progress that prompted the latest, final rebellion in the Khmer Rouge ranks...
...behind the scenes of this little time warp, a vast drama is unfolding. Since passage of the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996, 4,000 of the 11,000 radio stations in the U.S. have changed hands, many of them gobbled up by small chains or media conglomerates. Result: a rapid dwindling of local programming in favor of standardized music, talk and news, often packaged in distant corporate headquarters. "People are totally offended by what's on the air," attorney Louis Hiken told an NAB panel last week, deploring coast-to-coast "easy-listening stations selling Dodge Caravans, beer and tampons...