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...store requires no minimum age or source of income. The precocious applicant need only find a parent or guardian with a good credit rating to co-sign the application and guarantee any debts. The Buffums card is identical to ones the store issues to adults, as are the payment terms and interest charges. The sole difference is that cardholders under 18 are generally limited to a $200 line of credit...
Prostitution, besides being illegal and immoral, is expensive. To cut the aftertax cost of illicit sex in Chicago's suburbs, a firm called National Credit Service offered businessmen phony invoices that they could use to claim false tax deductions, as well as the privilege of credit-card payment. Lucrative though its business was, the firm closed up shop last week with the announcement that it had been an FBI sting. "We got everything we hoped for, and more," said Chicago FBI Special Agent Bob Long. Officials predict that the sting, dubbed Operation Safe Bet, could produce indictments...
...totals at least 100, perhaps 150, but the law here is even more ambiguous. No state has a statute specifically dealing with surrogates, but about a dozen have been considering measures ranging from permission to an outright ban. At least 24 states have old laws generally forbidding payment to a woman who gives up a child for adoption, as surrogate mother is expected to do. Moreover, private contracts between prospective parents and surrogate mothers may not be legally binding. Thus, if the surrogate refuses to give up the baby, or if the would-be parents refuse to accept...
Zaccaro promised Lerman he would buy back Ferraro's share for $100,000. Thus Lerman knew he would get back his cash payment of $100,000. In buying the half-share, Zaccaro would acquire half the mortgage obligation...
Other programmers are not so altruistic. Andrew Fluegelman, editor in chief of PC World magazine, made more than $100,000 by giving away his software and asking satisfied users for contributions. John MacEvoy, a part-time programmer from Germantown, Md., seeks no payment for the personal-finance program he wrote, but he does make one request of those who use it. Instead of paying him, MacEvoy says, they should leave the computer keyboard for a while and take their long-suffering spouses out to dinner...