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...have no choice but to undergo a more expensive procedure. "It's human nature to say, 'I can't afford that right now, and if it doesn't hurt, I don't have a problem,'" says Dr. Lawrence Spindel, a dentist in New York City. "Then all of a sudden you need a root canal...
...airline tickets as far in advance as possible (the Avenger once had a relative badger him on Thanksgiving Day about his itinerary for next Thanksgiving). But while buying tickets early may save you money, it also opens the door to unexpected screw-ups - as when airlines make sudden schedule adjustments that torpedo your plans. One New York family found this out the hard...
...reason for the sudden deluge of these crimes, according to Stephen Obie, acting director of enforcement for the CFTC, is that hard economic times are stripping away fraudsters' camouflage. And, of course, Bernard Madoff's stunner, a $50 billion Ponzi that wiped away billions of dollars from thousands of duped investors around the world, has brought global attention to Ponzi capers, encouraging both whistle-blowers and just plain nervous investors to come forward, he said. (See pictures of Madoff...
Harry Truman is a classic example of someone who was widely scorned at the time. It took 30 years for Truman to be appreciated, as a contrast to the artifice, theatricality, and in some cases mendacity associated with the presidency during Vietnam and Watergate. All the sudden he came to be seen as the real deal...
...their previous offer," which didn't shrink the spending in the package as much as she had demanded. When she got there, however, she was surprised to discover White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, who had come to make a deal. "It was as if all of a sudden they had decided to get serious with the negotiations," she says. "They agreed on the bottom line of our proposal, which was $780 billion...