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...toilet from our living room--but I swear I would go back there this minute," she says wistfully. "If we had hope of some kind of life in Baghdad, I would walk all the way." Adnan, a physician, feels the tug of home too, but he keeps a check on his emotions. "If we had hope ..." he repeats after his wife. "But do we have hope...
Globally, debit is becoming a bigger way to pay, in terms of the number of transactions, than charging credit. Debit has tended to grow up in stores or merchants that were doing business with cash and check. If you go back 20 years ago, you couldn't use a credit card in any grocery store in the United States, basically. It was a rarity. In the U.S., debit is catching up real fast with the rest of the world. MasterCard debit is growing at 15% to 20% per year. That plays into the global capabilities of the organization because...
...supporters he's gathered for lunch. "The NAACP one. I was the only Republican that showed! But I got a standing ovation. It was because I showed up! But they gave me a standing ovation when I left. Maybe that's because I left!" Tip your waitresses. But check their papers first...
...that they are truly interested in. He also suggests building rapport with a dealer. "A respected dealer will work with you...and they love to share their knowledge," he says. Aboutaam says that the new collector needs to understand the importance of the provenance, or history, of the object. "Check the authenticity of the piece. Who is selling it and who has seen it in terms of scholars or experts?" he says. "And it's crucial to get a condition report from a third party...
...turned off the TV and wandered over to my computer, almost dizzy, to check my e-mail one last time before bed, and I read the message and its two replies. These were messages full of confusion and cautious optimism, but most importantly, the very simple understanding that this was what the kitchen table and the football game were all about. Some of the people I corresponded with over the following 12 hours I’d met only once, but I wouldn’t have wanted to share that nerve-shredding time, between the shots fired Wednesday afternoon...