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...story's hed - "Poll Finds Delegates Are Conservative" - isn't exactly a teaser, but there's a few shining moments. This of Bush: "In a tribute to his political skills, delegates who described themselves as moderate viewed him as one, too, while self-described conservatives called him conservative." And here's the number of the beast: "Forty-two percent of Mr. Bush's supporters across the nation said they supported him with reservations. Only four percent of the delegates said they felt the same...
...climax is not the end. There is no ending; the whole film is the teaser to a planned trilogy. So Wolverine, searching for his roots, keeps on scratching. Xavier and Magneto speak of battles to come. A muted film ends on a minor chord. Perhaps fans will return for later episodes. But for us nonmutants, X-Men is the movie that took the e-cite-t out of excitement...
Action movies need a jazzy opening scene; it gets a moviegoer's pulse racing with anxiety. So 007 went airborne off a ski slope. Lethal Weapon's Danny Glover sat on a bomb-rigged toilet seat. But until now, no one had set a teaser scene in a Nazi death camp, where gaunt Jews trudge to their doom. A boy, torn from his parents, goes into a seizure, and the camp gates are bent open. Aha! So the inmates are miraculously freed? No. It's not about the 6 million. It's about this...
...like a 5/25. You get the near-term protection of a fixed rate for five years, and then the rate floats to market levels. Odds are that rates will move down within five years and you'll be able to refinance. Avoid one-year adjustables unless you need the teaser rate and expect a plumper income within 12 months. It's unlikely that market rates will be significantly lower when the teaser rate expires just a year from...
Avoid new debt if you can, and explore alternatives if you can't. For instance, you may be able to find a moderate fixed-rate credit card. That beats transferring your balance to a new card with a low teaser rate every few months. Most people fail to stay on top of that strategy, and many teaser rates don't apply to an old balance anyway. Home-equity lines of credit are easy to get, but the rate usually floats. Consider instead a fixed-rate home-equity loan for a one-time consolidation of debt. Beware though. Some lenders...