Word: youre
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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IMAGINE you go to the Coop this afternoon to buy a textbook. When you give the clerk your credit card, he suddenly calls Harvard Book Store and Wordsworth to ask about your credit limit.
When you ask why, he explains that your limit is the same at all the stores, which, by the way, have agreed to charge the same prices for all their books. Meanwhile, the bookstores trade information about customers' accounts with each other, and the clerks make money trading the data...
Sound suspicious? Now imagine that the police are investigating these book-stores for alleged price-fixing. You might want to ask for your money back.
What's more, a Wesleyan student last week filed similar charges against a group of schools, including Harvard. If he turns his case into a class action suit and wins, many students could be awarded damages for being overcharged. That could mean millions of dollars in your pockets and in...
The spell is sustained by the tacit bargain between casinos and gamblers -- limitless consolation in the form of drinks and obsequiousness for money lost. "You don't see Rockefellers gambling down here," says Brown. "They have to feel like a big shot. When they walk in, we know their name...