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Critics don't buy it and see the credit- debit function as the thin edge of the banking wedge. "I cannot believe they are doing all of this to save $5 million a year," the equivalent of about nine minutes of sales, says Terry Jorde, president and CEO of Country Bank USA in Cando, N.D. The fear, says Lawrence White, a professor of economics at New York University, is that the company will do to retail banking what it has done in apparel and groceries. Indeed, the application Wal-Mart filed would allow it to request a changed business plan...
...have one question for George W. Bush & Co. Why did they choose Iraq and not Saudi Arabia?one of the worst offenders regarding human rights?as a location for implementing democracy in the Middle East? American troops have been stationed in Saudi Arabia since 1990, and I cannot understand why, over the past 15 years, the U.S. has not pressured the Saudis toward democracy. Twenty-six million Saudis are controlled by 7,000 members of a dictatorial royal family. That King Abdullah adopt democratic reforms seems only secondary to the oil needs of the U.S. I suppose democracy in Saudi...
...Lewis adds that many other applicants were homeschooled for part of their education.“It’s a growth industry. We’ve probably had an increase in numbers over the past 10 years,” she says. Lewis says she cannot give exact figures because the admissions office does not place homeschooled students’ applications into separate categories.Despite this increase in the number of applicants, Lewis says Harvard usually only accepts between three and eight homeschooled students each year, a number significantly lower than this year’s overall acceptance rate...
...first journalistic pass, by Allen or TIME, cannot fully resolve all those issues. But it can answer some of the questions that have long dogged the organization, and it may also show how The Da Vinci Code could end up helping Opus...
...consistently popular boss - which has not always been true for all members of the royal family. "There's a lot of esprit de corps here," says Ross. "People stay a long time, and they don't get rich. It's because she's wonderful to work for. You cannot bluff, you cannot pull the wool over her eyes. You get clear direction, never ambiguous, and once a decision is made, it's not changed. The hardest thing about the job is ever letting her down." Hunka says the palace "is almost without politics. I never have to write a memo...