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Liquid Money. Before contemplating anything fancier, most people should get rid of all their high-interest debt (to earn 18% tax-free and risk-free, pay off your Visa) . . . buy their cars for cash (yes, it's legal to pay off a car loan; no, leasing's not generally a good idea) . . . stock up on "the economy size" when items are on sale (an "investment" in sale-priced soda, socks and soap can stretch $1,000 to buy $1,400 worth of the same stuff you'd have bought anyway -- a 40% tax-free return) . . . and stash away at least...
...three main sects of "wingers": the better-dead-than-Red faction, whose main concern was fighting communism; the religious right, interested in moral issues such as abortion; and fiscal rebels for whom the great demons were high taxes and government regulation. Bush's cold-warrior credentials served as a visa when he crossed from the Establishment faction into Reagan country in 1980, but the fall of the Soviet Union has shattered the right's consensus on foreign policy. Bush admires pragmatic power-balance diplomacy of the Kissinger school. Others favor more crusading zeal, while still others want to curtail overseas...
...Olympic Games may be starting in Barcelona, but the affiliated Corporate Sponsor Marketing Games have been going hot and heavy for some time. The main event is a piratical competition known as ambush marketing. The venues are magazines and television. The major matches so far are Visa International vs. American Express and Coca-Cola vs. Pepsi-Cola...
...Visa has forked over $20 million to Olympic organizers to make its charge plate the Games' official credit card, while Coca-Cola has plunked down $33 million to become the official soft drink. Challengers, who pay no entry fee to play, attempt to disrupt the exclusive promotional campaigns with disguised Olympic tie-in ads of their own. American Express denies that it is playing ambush. Instead its clever effort, unveiled last week, is billed as "corrective advertising," aimed at misperceptions fostered by Visa advertising that the American Express card is not accepted in Barcelona. "The Olympics don't take American...
DANIEL MIRANDA, who flew drug profits to Panama, will serve two years but then will get his pilot's license back, along with a U.S. visa...