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...because commerce on the subcontinent still runs mostly on cash. Dheeraj Dikshit, the head of consumer assets in India for U.K.-based bank HSBC, reckons that credit cards are used for only about 2% of all retail transactions. But cash-strapped consumers will still hurt economic growth. Many spend half their salary on car and house payments and will be forced to cut discretionary spending. Some sectors are already getting hurt. New car sales - 80% of which are financed - are slowing. Tata Motors reported a 3% decline in sales in August compared with the year before, while Maruti Suzuki reported...
...interests of the European Union in complete disregard of the interests of our own country. Mr. Cameron conforms to that Conservative policy. Even as Prime Minister, he will have no real power and will only be able to tinker with ? peripheral matters and, like his immediate predecessors, will spend much of his time posing on the international stage. Stanley Booton, SOMERSET, ENGLAND...
...Weird freaky twin things, let me think. Because we spend so much time together, we’re very much on the same wavelength. We finish each other’s sentences all the time. Sometimes we can complete a conversation as seamlessly as if you’re talking to one person. But there?...
...have been arrested, ranging from juveniles to a 36-year-old man, all of them African Americans. Under the local law, a first conviction garners a $150 fine or community service, a second one a $300 fine, and anyone who fails to pay up or perform their service could spend up to 60 days in jail...
...home state in class, but then we will choose to pursue an internship in New York for the summer and only visit this beloved home state for a week. Of all Harvard obsessions, the summer internship frenzy has always struck me as one of the most puzzling. We spend our summers fighting AIDs in Africa or taking organic chemistry, come home for just long enough to get a few nights of sleep, and then return here. And those of us who did spend the summer at home will often look at our toes upon hearing the glamorous exploits...