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...course, if you ask most retailers, it's not just banks that are kept under the companies' collective thumb. Most American consumers are familiar with the tag line for Visa's advertising campaign touting the company's omnipresence: After describing some tantalizing vacation spot, hotel or safari, the voiceover intones, "And they don't take American Express." The merchants in question, according to MasterCard and Visa detractors, don't take American Express (or anyone else's card) because they're under considerable pressure not to. In a class action lawsuit distinct from the DOJ case, 4 million retailers have joined...
...cost: a cool $105 billion. Repealing the so-called "death tax" has been a critical issue for congressional GOP members, and they insist the expense of this cut would be covered by the polymorphous and always controversial budget "surplus." The Democrats' plan, with a slimmer $22 billion price tag, was geared toward providing "targeted" estate tax relief for family farmers and small business owners. And where would the extra $88 billion provided for in the GOP plan end up? In the bank vaults of America's wealthiest families. In other words, says Branegan, everyone involved in this debate...
...situation is owed to the internships I have received, which were procured to a large extent because of the Harvard tag on my resume. The skills that I brought to these internships and bring to my work next year were honed at this wonderful newspaper and at the sports department of WHRB, the campus radio station. And the work ethic, attitude and resilience I possess have been developed in my classwork and experiences within Harvard life. So I am a happy graduate. It's odd, but when I think about this fact, everything else--the advising, the randomization, the General...
...this? Because the legislation is just what banks, credit-card companies, debt consolidators and other financial-services businesses ordered. To get it, they retained high-powered Washington lobbyists, among them Haley Barbour, former chairman of the Republican National Committee, and Lloyd Bentsen, onetime Senator and Treasury Secretary. The price tag for lobbying: more than $5 million...
...tapes released to the victims' families who are suing Jefferson County for mishandling the rescue. Although fire officials and the sheriff's department strongly opposed public distribution of the video, the county attorney made the tapes available to individuals and news organizations to avoid additional lawsuits. The $25 price tag, the attorney said, covers the cost of production and distribution...