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...itching to take a vacation but feeling temporarily light in the wallet? A few airlines now allow you to purchase tickets on layaway. If you sign up for the American Airlines credit card, you can buy any ticket worth at least $199 and defer payment for 90 days with no interest. Continental and America West let you do away with a credit card entirely if you use a feature called Bill Me Later on their websites. You have to fill out a credit application, but if you qualify, you won't have to pay until the bill arrives. Continental will...
...hundred life-size cardboard figures alongside donation bins with a slot in the shape of a cross. "It's becoming more and more difficult to find volunteers," says Salvation Army spokesman Major George Hood. The group is testing whether electronic jingling and a recorded greeting will have the same wallet-emptying effect on passersby...
...crash course in 21st century finance. He has made the bank switch from typewriters and calculators to computers, introduced it to newfangled financial instruments like currency auctions and replaced the country's bank notes so that Iraqis no longer have to carry Saddam Hussein's mug in their wallet. Not bad for a man who had never worked at a central bank. And despite the ongoing war, al-Shabibi has held the Iraqi currency, the dinar, firm at about 1,450 to the U.S. dollar. "We have all kinds of instability here already," al-Shabibi says. "We can't afford...
...there are training camps on the Philippine island of Mindanao. Although the camps there are small and mobile, and the recruits trained in them few in number, the training is impressive, including study of chemical and biological agents. Third, regional governments continue to lack both the will and the wallet to target the groups' support and operational infrastructure...
Surviving in Harvard’s social world can be tough on a thin wallet. But for many students, buying things—whether they’re edible, drinkable, or wearable—can be a quick fix for loneliness or disatisfaction, and a not-so-free pass to social acceptance...