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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Sometimes, as Bob Dole says in the Visa ad, you just can't win. The Clinton Administration must have felt snakebit when, an hour before the scheduled State of the Union speech, the Simpson jury announced they had reached a verdict. As the White House frantically phoned networks to make sure they would not break away from covering the speech (NBC said they would use a split screen), spokesman Mike McCurry said that, despite the fuss over the Simpson verdict, the speech would go on as scheduled. One House Republican even asked if he could bring a portable...
...DOLE A milk mustache, a fling with Air France and now a Super Bowl commercial for Visa...
...pretty harmless. The proposition itself, however, is alarming. Section 5 states that so-called "suspected" persons should be denied social services such as food stamps and Aid to Families with Dependent Children unless they provide adequate verification of their status in the state, in the form of a visa, green card or social security card. Section 6, which deals with public health, and section 7, which denies education to "suspected" illegal immigrants, contains similar language. The use of the word "suspected" borders a very fine line. To put it another way, in a California with Proposition 187, I would...
...irksome new fees or higher interest rates. "I have no loyalty," Ruopp says, with words that would bring pain to any marketer's ears. "I will go with whoever has the best deal." She did just that by transferring her $4,000 balance from a Bank of America Visa card that charged 18.9% interest to a Capital One Visa account that carried a 9.9% rate--potentially saving more than $300 annually. Close scrutiny of new offers can also pay off. Last week Aaron Levin, who owns an independent long-distance company in Castle Rock, Colorado, tore up an application...
...them out of reach for millions of people in the developing world, as well as for large numbers of underinsured patients in the industrial world. Tens of thousands of Americans are scrambling to pay for the drugs any way they can--through private insurance policies, Medicaid payments, sometimes even Visa and MasterCard. One resourceful patient in Georgia collected drugs from the leftover supplies of deceased friends...