Word: shop
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BUYER, BEWARE You like to shop online, but is your billing information vulnerable to hackers? Credit-card issuers, who often absorb the expense of fraudulent purchases, are working on a remedy. American Express and Visa are joining other Web businesses in offering antifraud strategies for online shopping, including everything from assigning shoppers aliases to offering temporary credit-card numbers for one-time use only...
...care choice, Bush has turned to tax exemptions. He has proposed to channel $60 billion into Medicare over 10 years, which will primarily go towards tax credits of up to $2,000 for the uninsured. Under Bush's plan, people would be encouraged to use their tax credits to shop between managed care providers, usually multi-state HMOs, increasing competition and consumer choice...
QUOTE "These parents want to shop for their children with a sense of dignity...
...floor space in Harlem, and you may be confused about whether you've stepped into a baby boutique or a parental-advice center. Actually, Room to Grow is a bit of both. Brown's 200 clients--all poor New York City families referred by social-service agencies--come to "shop" for merchandise like sweaters and shoes, toys and strollers. Everything is free--and they get two hours with Brown, a child therapist, in the bargain...
Mention van Gogh and images of sunflowers, trees and the find-me-in-any-poster-shop 'Starry Night' (1889) come to mind. And while it is easy to be swept away by his lively French landscapes or his gorgeous renditions of flowers, van Gogh himself considered portrait painting a supremely important part of his work, writing to his younger sister...