Word: sales
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...cardholder. And if they succeed, who gets hurt? Not consumers. Federal law limits their liability to $50, and many card issuers don't even collect that. It's the merchants who take the hit - standard bank practice when the cards are not present at the point of sale (when they are present, the loss is the bank's). Address verification and other screening programs can help merchants avoid bad sales. Yet these tools are not that widely used, notes Bill Brown, a director at VeriFone, a secure-payment-software maker. "To me, that says they're not losing that much...
...council allocated $12,050 to hire a fleet of buses to ferry college students to and from New Haven on Harvard-Yale weekend. Round-trip tickets, which will go on sale next week at the council office in Holworthy basement, will be sold...
...University is right to stress the intellectual property rights of its professors and protect our academic community by prohibiting the sale of academic information to Web sites like Versity.com. When properly understood, these restrictions will help strengthen the bonds between students and professors and among fellow students. They will foster more cooperation and therefore more education within the Harvard academic community. These privileges, after all, are what we are paying to receive...
...helping us make this." In early August, the network ran an on-camera plea for volunteers to help promote the movie; the 2,000 respondents spread out into their neighborhoods and congregations with flyers and 100,000 posters. When theater owners agreed to put tickets on sale a month early, TBN aired videos of supporters buying blocks of 100 or even 1,000. Two Los Angeles ministers, with congregations of 12,000 and 18,000, each arranged to buy out that city's Magic Johnson Theatre for a day. "We made this an event," says Michael Harpster, Providence's marketing...
...stocks on Sharebuilder.com With no minimum required to open an account or make a trade, this site is geared for beginners--i.e., mutual-fund investors curious about stock picking or kids just cracking open their piggy banks--and charges only $2 a purchase ($1 for kids) and $20 a sale...