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...throwback to the 1980s, when it was common practice to charge different prices for cash and credit, some gas stations are knocking a few cents off each gallon for customers willing to pay with paper, not plastic. That's because as the price of gas has soared, so has the amount of money that stations pay credit-card companies, which take about 2-3% of each sale charged. Since drivers are quick to defect to another station to save just a penny or two, owners are slow to raise prices to cover their increased costs--and at times even lose...
...when Eddie Pope was given his marching orders by Mr. Larrionda for a second yellow-card foul. The U.S. crowd, some 10,000 of whom filled one corner of the arena, let loose with that classic "Bullshit, Bullshit" chant and began flinging plastic cups, some of them half filled to get greater distance. (And that cost money, by the way. All beer cups here are returnable for a one euro deposit - these are the green World Cup games...
...also be supporting farmers in your community, helping defend the countryside from sprawl, saving oil by eating food produced nearby and teaching your children that a carrot is a root, not a machine-lathed orange bullet that comes in a plastic bag. A lot more is going on at the farmers' market than the exchange of money for food...
Kron and his wife Geane Brito started their retail business as frustrated new parents who, like many of their design-obsessed customers, could not find well-designed products for their children. "We had kids a bit later, so we had money to spend," says Brito. "But the field is dominated by plastic and plywood...
...Kentucky telecom company, iGate, and that on July 30, 2005, he took $100,000 in cash out of the trunk of a collaborator's car in Pentagon City, and then stored the cash in a refrigerator in his home in plastic food containers. The following month the FBI raided his home and hauled the money away as evidence...