Word: teaser
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Want to test the waters of love as a contestant, or maybe just admire from afar? The Season Two teaser, and all Season One episodes, can be viewed at http://hutvnetwork.com/shows/loveatharvard.
...With that teaser, North Korea repeated the pattern of behavior it has honed since the early 1990s: rant, provoke, then hint that peace and reconciliation are possible - if it gets what it wants. The message appeared to mean that the North wants to sit down face to face with the U.S. During the Bush years, Washington never agreed to a formal bilateral dialogue. But the North has always wanted to sideline the South Korean government in Seoul, with whom it has never signed a peace treaty, as well as the Japanese government, which regime founder Kim Il Sung fought...
...Introduced his famous "teaser and bio" feature as an announcer in Oakland, Calif., in 1962, after finding a magazine called Who's Who in Pop Music in a trash can and reading to his audience the facts inside...
...been the mantra of anti-tax Republicans for decades. But, so far, depriving the “beast”—big government—of revenue hasn’t led to starvation. The beast has had a credit card, a card with a seemingly perennial teaser rate and a credit limit it can more or less set itself. Republican politicians, who would have lost their power to vote tax cuts to their wealthy donors if they hadn’t been re-elected, have not wanted to be implicated in the demise of the source...
...Consider the teaser rate. More than a third of consumers pick one credit card over another based on which issuer has the lowest introductory interest rate. And yet people often do so in a way that leaves them with higher finance charges over time. In one study, University of Maryland economists Haiyan Shui and Lawrence Ausubel watched people pick a card with a teaser rate of 4.9% for six months over a card with a teaser rate of 7.9% for 12 months. That would make sense if the people then paid off their balances within six months. But many didn...