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...hope for such alchemical results may originate in an anti-elitist assumption and an attractively irrational impulse to stick a thumb in the eye of power - the underlying reason, for example, for Jesse Ventura's election as governor of Minnesota, or, again, for Truman's victory over the smug little man on the wedding cake...
...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...
...current scheme, even with the latest revisions, will not add beauty, stature or vitality to the neighborhood. It will stick out like a sore thumb," said one resident...
...membership. “There just are not too many takers,” says one club member, who asked not to be named, “but it’s understandable. If you were black, you wouldn’t want to stick out like a sore thumb. My instinct is that the Somerset would be delighted to have more, but my guess is that [minorities] would not be too interested.” A Taverner, gave another explanation: “These clubs are slow to reach out, but they’ve gone a long...
Harvard's resident jack-of-all-positions, junior John Franey, playing first base, sustained an injury to his glove hand when Northeastern's Matt Keating stepped on his thumb. According to Franey, the injury is a mild sprain...