Word: runs
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...been more appropriate. First of all, Ventura, the party's highest-ranking elected official and the repository of its presidential urges, didn't show. Bad weather and a bad back kept him in Minnesota. When they got him on speakerphone, instead of taking on Perot, Ventura promised not to run for President; his grab for power was more a wink and a nudge. He pitched Jack Gargan, a retired financial consultant, as party chairman, but then swaddled the endorsement in protestations that he wasn't telling the fiercely independent delegates how to vote. The room, which had sparked with applause...
...Ventura. And he and Gargan, once friendly, haven't spoken in years. Gargan intends to move party headquarters away from Perot's home roost of Dallas to Gargan's nest in Florida's Cedar Key. He and patron Ventura made clear they're not interested in a third Perot run for the presidency. "We are going in a whole new direction," Gargan said...
...long it would take to pay off a balance with only the minimum. (For instance, if you paid just the minimum 2% on a $5,000 balance at 15%, it would take you 32 years, and you'd pay $7,700 in interest.) "This is an industry that's run amuck," says Frank Torres, legislative counsel at Consumer Union. "Fees are another way to squeeze money out of consumers...
...working. In the past few years the average late fee has soared 75%, from around $12 in 1995 to more than $21 at the end of last year, according to Consumer Action. Today charges run as high as $35 a pop, helping propel industry-wide fee revenue, which now accounts for nearly 20% of all revenue, from $10 billion in '96 to $19 billion in '98, according to CardWeb.com Financial giants Citigroup, Bank One and Chase just reported strong second-quarter earnings, fueled by double-digit growth in credit-card income...
Most critics run on gas and sass. Jarrell, the poet, novelist, children's book author--what didn't he do, and do beautifully?--was a tireless lover of language. He fell in love (and in hate) with the poem or book under review, bringing it alive even as he anatomized it. These essays, selected by Brad Leithauser, open the reader to the Morgan Library of Jarrell's mind, ablaze with a sensible passion and aphoristic wit. "The people who live in a Golden Age," he wrote, "usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks." When Jarrell died in 1965, criticism...