Word: want
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...month for Net access and are rife with hidden fees for basics like a monitor, tech support and one-time "start-up" charges. And then there's the nagging fear that these newcomers will vanish into cyberspace long before your three-year contract is up. Would you really want to do business with a company called Enchilada? Actually, you can't anymore, since it stopped taking orders in early July, less than three months after it was rolled...
...roll my pennies and write my name and 14-digit account number on every roll. Then the bank would accept them--for deposit only, the sum to be held against my account until the bank got around to its own count. The message seemed clear: even banks don't want pennies. By the way, that penny dish at many checkout points is a nice idea, but it doesn't help. I contribute often but rarely withdraw because I wither under the lethal stare of the cashier, who I assume has a penny jar far larger than...
People who want to keep the penny are either coin collectors, somehow related to the zinc industry (pennies are 97.5% zinc) or paranoid that stores will raise prices if we start rounding to the nearest nickel. Yet rounding is in force on military bases and in some foreign countries. Three and four get rounded to five; one and two get rounded to zero. Even Einstein would be hard-pressed to defeat that system. You round at the end, not item by item, and you wouldn't round at all if paying by check or credit card. Sure, Dunkin' Donuts could...
After a full two hours of play in the championship game, there was still no score. Wow, that's excitement! No more football for me. Now I know why all those foreigners riot at soccer tournaments. They want their money back. CLAY LOOMIS Arroyo Grande, Calif...
There's record-setting heat in Washington. Fortunately, the Capitol shuts down this week for summer recess. Some pols have already taken off; a few will require hiking boots, others water shoes, and at least one might want to rewatch Cabaret in preparation. We hope all remember to leave the thong bathing suits at home...