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...throwback to the 1980s, when it was common practice to charge different prices for cash and credit, some gas stations are knocking a few cents off each gallon for customers willing to pay with paper, not plastic. That's because as the price of gas has soared, so has the amount of money that stations pay credit-card companies, which take about 2-3% of each sale charged. Since drivers are quick to defect to another station to save just a penny or two, owners are slow to raise prices to cover their increased costs--and at times even lose...
...shirt. The entire group sends up fumes like an Iraqi oil factory, and when Kamiyama presses them to renounce smoking, they protest: "Our lips would be lonely? And our fingers too." You?ll find no girls in Cromartie, but plenty of aliens. In a way, the movie is a throwback to the hip, infantile tastes of Subway?s youthful days. Bless it, and them...
...British author took his time writing this book: 30 years, to be exact. Norton's executive editor, who championed the novel at BookExpo, described it as a "throwback to great Victorian page-turning storytelling," It leads through opium dens, brothels and London alleys, while untying the tangled inheritance of an English baron. The publisher threw a huge, glamorous luncheon for Cox recently at the Biltmore Room in Chelsea, where there are more mirrors than at Versailles. There are high hopes for this big, thick historical novel...
President Vladimir Putin is reaping the benefit of the soaring economy. His approval rating is a rock-solid 70%. That support has allowed Putin to brush off his critics in the West, where the Russian President is often painted as a throwback to autocracy. The Kremlin has tightened its grip on society in recent years, cracked down on nongovernmental organizations and maneuvered to take control of natural resources and other industries it deems strategic. The Bush Administration, which has grown uneasy about Russian assertiveness beyond its borders, issued an unusually harsh indictment last week when Vice President Dick Cheney said...
...houses with yards and fences. Not many of them are very well off, but there's little acute poverty, as a gaggle of automotive and other factories has given the town a steady supply of well-paying jobs. Violent crime is rare, and the town is pervaded by a throwback decency. People wave at one another from their cars on Budd Street. They chitchat in the aisles of Mickey's T-Mart grocery store...