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...Across the mall at Ruby Tuesday, the television was tuned to pro bowling during the final debate, and after a couple of beers you couldn't tell the difference. Across the street, at the Waffle House between the Steak N Shake and Crabby Tom's Seafood, TIME magazine conducted a poll at least as scientific and useful as any of the others you get bombarded with daily. There were five diners in the room. Asked whom they like, there was a groan or two. Pressed to answer, four took Bush; one liked Gore. Asked, Why Gore? he said...
Consumer advocates like former Senator Howard Metzenbaum, chairman of the Consumer Federation of America, hope that a government win might lead to a shake-up in interest rates, which this summer hit a six-year peak of 17.8%. Interest rates and penalty fees have shot up over the past several years, as issuers scramble to compensate for the growing number of Americans--now a majority--who clear their balances every month to avoid such charges. The fee system is at issue in several other cases involving the behemoths...
Tesauro says it will take years before the concept of competition takes a firm hold in Italy. "Maybe 10 years have not been enough to shake up a system that was so encrusted with state control. You can do a lot with the Antitrust Authority, and you can do a lot with laws, but in the end, you have to transform a culture of protection to one of competition," he says. He points to telephones: real competition meant a drop in prices and better service...
...only the administration could see its way to loosening up the regular restrictions on partying this weekend we might be able to shake off some of our midterm blues, if only for a night...
...agent-dependent, pre-pubescent boys and girls are being recruited and transformed into pop stars by record companies around the world. In Bangkok, 12-year-old half-Scottish, half-Indonesian Anan Anwar is shooting to the top of the charts with hits "Go To School" and "Simon Says." Triple Shake and Best Frenz are two more pop creations whose members are too young to see PG-13 movies but old enough to suggestively sway their underdeveloped hips...