Word: cards
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...house and talk about her money situation. Nothing doing--until a year later, when the older woman learned she had cancer. With some urging, she agreed to move to a supported-living condo in New York, and her family found out that she had $20,000 in credit-card debt that she couldn't explain. Helping her was a struggle. "Mom's mostly competent, but not fully," says her daughter, 47. "She's very independent and stubborn and insists on doing a lot for herself...
...prefers to keep his thoughts to himself, letting only top aides in on his plans. He forbids White House leaks, which enable interested parties to meddle, prepare their reactions and disrupt the Administration's scripted agenda. Following Bush's instructions, says a senior White House aide, chief of staff Card "likes to get a small group of people in the room and keep it very quiet...
...decide to take a swing, he swings hard. By delivering his reform package with a presidential seal and a prime-time flourish, Bush hopes to propel it through Congress quickly. Last Tuesday morning he met with his aides in the Oval Office to discuss his speech to the nation. Card told him that "here in Washington, this is going to be a huge story." Bush relished the thought of rattling the cages of Washington's institutional bureaucracies; he told the aides that as long as he was announcing something, he wanted it to be dramatic. Said Bush: "As a friend...
...wasn't guilty of them all, but enough to start me thinking. I want my kids to work hard, appreciate what they have and give to causes they believe in. Yet we live in an age when "affluenza" makes the cover of Forbes, and young adults have serious credit-card problems. Does the fact that my daughter sees me whipping out my credit card several times a day mean she will be back on our doorstep with her hand...
Show them the money. Giving your kids money--an allowance when they're young and, the Gallos suggest, a prepaid credit card like Visa Buxx when they're teens--is key to teaching them how to live within their means as adults. Use the start of an allowance (or a raise) to discuss what your kids are expected to do: Are they responsible for buying their own candy at the movies, their own CDs at the mall? Are they expected to save some and give some away? (For youngsters, I've recently come across a terrific plastic piggy bank called...