Word: retainers
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...terms: 0% interest for life on balance transfers. JPMorgan Chase Bank also recently offered customers a 0% deal in a limited test. But before you accept, read the fine print. That zero rate won't necessarily last forever. After six months, cardholders who still carry a transfer balance can retain the 0% rate only if they make two transactions per month. And new purchases carry a 13.99% rate. Also, monthly payments get applied to the transfer balance first, so interest will accrue quickly on current purchases. If you're a tardy bill payer, be careful. The first time...
...sweet of Justice Kennedy to say gays can now "enter upon [a] relationship in the confines of their homes ... and still retain their dignity as free persons." Apparently, gay-activist lawyers wept in court upon hearing this. But they should know that dignity is not the court's to give. Gays have found their own dignity through decades of refusing to hide. For the court to come around, at this late date, to acknowledging our existence as "free persons" is shockingly patronizing; it's condescension that has been cast as liberation. I'm glad those two Texas fellas can freely...
When the students return to Dubai, they will retain their connections with the facilities, helping to support fledgling research programs in the region...
Gross, who served as dean of undergraduate education for the last year, will succeed outgoing Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 next week but retain his current role as leader of an ongoing review of the curriculum...
When it does, the already hot competition among service providers is sure to intensify as each carrier scrambles to retain its customers and poach others. Yankee Group analyst Roger Entner estimates that once subscribers can keep their phone number, 12 million to 15 million more than usual will defect every year, costing the industry between $2 billion and $3 billion annually. (That doesn't include the estimated $1 billion the industry will have to spend to upgrade its networks to accommodate the change, but consumers will be picking up that tab; some providers are already collecting a small surcharge.) Even...