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...charge to 25% of the credit limit, Premier has retooled its offering. It now charges a $45 processing fee before customers open a card. It then charges a separate $75 annual fee, which is exactly 25% of $300. "Getting a credit card if you have bad credit is harder than it used to be," says Odysseas Papadimitrou, CEO of consumer-credit website Card Hub. "But they are still available...
...epic plot, which is simply unaaceptable for an adaptation of “Alice in Wonderland.” Maybe this more mainstream approach is to be expected since some of Burton’s recent films like “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” try harder to reach to a wider audience with tacky jokes and characters that try to excel at self-conscious weirdness, but it is a disappointment nonetheless...
...true that certain forms of the Islamic veil, such as the burqua, physically limit a woman’s existence. It would be much harder to play soccer, go shopping or do other vigorous activities when so covered. In a society where the superficial changes brought by the feminist revolution are highly resonant—fifties women were hemmed in by those tight circle skirts, but now we can all wear pantsuits!—the burqua can seem inherently opposed to "girl power...
...government expects to close the $75 billion fiscal gap by cutting operating expenses 10%, freezing wages and halting new hires. The plan calls for the creation of a new independent statistical service, which should make it harder for officials to manipulate data. It also includes an improved tax-collection system designed to catch tax cheats, who have created an underground economy worth possibly as much as 25% of the country's output. The method proposed: incentives that encourage Greeks, who for decades have paid for services in cash, to ask for receipts, to pressure service providers to report the income...
...think it was pretty evenly matched the whole game,” senior Doug Rogers said. “We had our opportunities, Princeton had theirs. We thought we were playing well and realized we needed to be urgent. I think we came out a little harder in the third and pressed offensively...