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Too many women think it's impolite to talk money while dating. Or they have something to hide (such as large credit card bills or a poor credit history).

We believe groups are at the heart of fostering a culture of responsible borrowers. While some people might be apathetic about paying their credit card bills, they're likely to be far more conscientious about their payment habits when their group's reputation is on the line. For instance, a member of a university alumni group won't want to shame their alma mater and fellow alums by giving them a mediocre group reputation.

The problem is that they go out and run up their credit card bills again, ... So now they are burdened by a first mortgage, a second mortgage and on top of that more credit card debt.

This sets up the legal foundation for someone to do business over the Internet with public-key infrastructure certificates. We could do none of the business that we do every day without this technology approach provided in our card management system.

This will be the best all-around boxing card ever here in Los Angeles, ... The prices of the card are affordable. They appeal to the ordinary boxing fan here in Los Angeles. You will not see tickets for $1000. Fans who love boxing can purchase tickets as low as $25. Over half the tickets are $50 and less.

This reflects an increase in desktop modem and wireless card stock levels in preparation for the Melbourne launch.

There are 3.5 billion credit card solicitations sent out every year, ... That's 41 for every man, woman and child.

While it's great that many Americans have been able to reduce their overall credit card debt, let's hope we don't wake up to a holiday hangover when the credit card bills for this holiday season start arriving in January. If consumers used credit for their holiday purchases this year, they might erase any progress they have made toward paying down their debt.

Without knowing who has this crucial data or how it's being used, these consumers are at serious risk to credit card fraud or all-out identity theft, which can dramatically raise risks of a variety of financial and personal hardships.

Without him, I know I wouldn't be the person I am. He's the one who taught me all about dedication. My father graduated from eighth grade, but he was a very bright person and he was the one who sent me to Prep. I remember I was a sophomore and it was report card night at Prep. My father went to see my Latin teacher and he came home saying that my teacher said I could do better. I said, 'Dad, I'm getting an 80.' He said, 'Your teacher said you can do better.' I said, 'But Dad,' and he said, 'Your teacher said you can do better.' I got the message. I always tried to do better. I know he's looking down from heaven and enjoying this.

With such a low premium of 4 percent to the prior day's close and the fact that there is a significant breakup fee of $225 million, it doesn't give us much comfort that investors are being protected. There has been a huge turnaround among the credit card issuers over the past three years, and with MBNA being acquired, there's some scarcity value for Providian. But their shareholders are not getting it.

When we listened to the third-quarter earnings (report), their credit card business was performing above expectations and they felt that that was going to mitigate the negative impact they were experiencing from their retail operation.

Financial literacy is such an important thing for kids to understand at a young age. Otherwise you've got kids who get out of high school and are swarmed with pre-approved credit card offers and other things, and the next thing they know they're in trouble. ... So many kids have no idea how to intelligently handle money.

The government is not in the national ID card business; all the credentials (that the government issues) are related to the government.

We're in a bad crunch right now. We are totally jammed on immigrant visas, the green card category, and totally jammed on H-1B visas. You can't bring in tech workers right now.

We're thrilled to offer this card to the U.S. Olympic Team. The US Olympic Team prepaid card will allow them to dine, purchase souvenirs and enjoy the Olympic experience with one, easy-to-use funds-access solution.

We need to remove the fog of misinformation, hyperbole and emotions that have been the calling card of a vocal minority pushing the government to become more involved in television regulation.

You can't be selfish. Right now is a serious situation for us. The Braves lost tonight, and the Wild Card is still in our favor. If the same situation comes up again, I won't be happy, but I'll do what I've got to do ... This game is more about your team and not about yourself.

We've had a teen card system here for 10 or 15 years. In the last week we've issued eight of them. We have quite a few cards out there.

To me, having a good card with a low rate that doesn't zap you with late fees is a better way to go than all of the gimmick cards.

There is also a personal touch. The consumer gets a card from the person making the furniture when the piece is started.

The operators are striving to give users a better mobile data experience; having to insert a card and install software is a hassle for some users, and often a barrier to adoption.

The recent surge in fuel prices and Delta's disclosure that it will have to post 750 million dollars of cash collateral to extend its credit card processing agreement indicate that the airline's already slim chances of avoiding bankruptcy are dwindling rapidly.

There is so much uncertainty involved. You just have a wild card pretty much everywhere you look.

The red card killed the game, it changed everything. I woke up this morning and thought we could really beat Chelsea and I thought we played fantastically for the first 25 minutes,

The red card killed the game. And I don't think the decision was correct. I think he was only trying to protect himself.

We will probably see card first approach. It will be promoted to business notebook users, and there will be data cards before there are phones.

What people do on the field is kind of your calling card in terms of the quality of work. When he was a defensive coordinator at Jacksonville and Pittsburgh, they did some pretty quality work. They had top-line defensive teams. He did it in different situations featuring different types of players. That will be helpful to us.

We don't recommend that you refuse to pull over. Drivers who have doubts should insist on seeing the officer's shield and ID card to be sure. Every police officer carries them and will produce them if asked.

You may have to contact the issuer two or three times, but keep plugging away until your credit report shows that the card has been closed.

You can just look at the card and almost define the player without reading the report. It cuts through the jargon a little quicker.

With Ruby being brand new, the small things are the most prominent problem. We feel a little more like landlords than residence hall staff right now with the number of complaints about faulty plugs and card readers.

You have to think that economies of scale make this more plausible. We've created a behemoth in the card industry through this merger, and things like this seem like a natural progression going forward.

When I was six years old, I fell in love with magic. For Christmas, I got a magic box and a very old book on card manipulation. Somehow, I was more interested in pure manipulation than in all the silly little tricks in the box.

What a roller-coaster ride. We seemingly had the game under control, but almost gave it away. But I have to give the team credit. They never quit. In the past two games, we were forced to sit out some key players due to injury, illness and card problems. I am very proud of the way the team bounced back from all that adversity.

We're paying, if they'd like to sign up for credit card monitoring. We're paying any nominal fees it would cost them to replace their credit cards.

We talked for two to five minutes. He asked me where I was coming from. I told him 'I'm lost right now.' He and me talked about my Navy career. He told me he was in the Navy. He showed me his card and asked where I was from. He asked what I was doing in the area. He was a good man. He was a God-fearing person. He didn't deserve to die.

We tried to put together as good a card as possible. Teams like it because it's a good midseason test, and if you lose, you don't have to worry about it because it's not a region game." ()

What stood out more than anything was she worked as hard as she possibly could every possession, every minute of the game. I call her a wild card because she can do different things in different games. The way she carried herself, we thought she was dynamite.

We monitor customer card activity on an hourly basis. We generally know about fraudulent purchases before the customer knows and notify them when we believe a fraudulent transaction was made.

We went as high as we could. We were actually putting graphic effects in here you couldn't see on any graphics card commercially available when we were working on the game.

The private sector is also involved in this card since the electronic purse will be managed by major financial institutions following a tender that will be issued soon.

We try to do this every year to move any delinquents in a more positive direction. It's basically like a 'get out of jail free' card that helps get them back in line.

With little evidence that tightness in the U.S. labor market is slackening, and oil prices a wild card for inflation as winter approaches, the FOMC had few options but to remain vigilant about inflation,

We got our Kroger card ... our Food Lion card and we've been to Wal-Mart.

We feel pretty comfortable. We believe we're in a horse race. I have personally sent a thank-you card to every contributor.

To me, Kirby is at his best sitting at a card table playing cards, talking to him, stories being shared, spending hours and hours with him. He's the same in that little room as he is everywhere else.

To be honest, I?m not just a doubles player, ... Singles is my first priority. But I got a wild card into the U.S. Open, so I just decided to play doubles (at the Pilot Pen). It?s nice to be here in New Haven with my coach to get ready for the U.S. Open. We?re fortunate to have gotten a wild card from the tournament director.

This new service is an ideal way for our Business Check Card customers to simplify their accounting practices and better manage company expenses.

This new People Access Security Service, or PASS system card, will be particularly useful for those citizens in border communities who regularly cross northern and southern borders every day as an integral part of their daily lives. We're talking about essentially like the kind of driver's license or other simple card identification that almost all of us carry in our wallets day in and day out.

This new feature offers our customers another payment option at the pump or in the store. It's like using our client card without the card. We're pleased to be the first Canadian financial institution to offer our customers this safe, convenient method of payment that can help them get on their way as quickly as possible.

We think the Civic Center is one of the greatest venues in the Midwest. We want to bring a first class card here with local fighters and we feel that we have done that.

We are very pleased with our first quarter results. The company's strong performance demonstrates the benefits of our continued diversification and enhanced operational focus. This past quarter we had particularly strong results in Retail Banking and Card Services.

We are very pleased to have entered into this arrangement with Merrill Lynch. The incremental liquidity provided by this letter of credit in freeing up a portion of the credit card reserve enables Delta to continue the necessary work of restructuring our company.

Besides the already full dance card around the Arab world, now you've got this going on. It certainly ignites in people's minds that this situation is going to get worse before it gets better.

Everything else about the card is perfect for identification purposes. There's a name, there's a number, there's a digital signature. It is in many respects a national ID card even though in the card itself it says 'not to be used for identification purposes,'

Every person who pays off their credit card in full each month should be using a credit card that gives a rebate or a reward. Otherwise, you are being economically foolish. Some of these cards pay you a significant cash rebate just for using the card.

Based on a thorough analysis of the five-year academic results at all 2,850 schools appearing in the Institute's Report Card on Ontario's Elementary Schools, we rated the schools on three categories of academic performance. The awards will be presented to the top school team in each category. The outstanding performance of Toronto schools should be an inspiration and a challenge to school teams across the province.

As the record aircraft orders of last year are delivered, matching capacity to demand will become even more critical. And Avian Flu is the wild card for 2006.

As is very often the case, the smart card is a solution designed more for the benefit of the financial institution than it is for the consumer.

Computer loss and theft represents a huge security risk to both individuals and corporations. It's absolutely imperative to safeguard computing assets because of the direct financial implications as well as the liability of exposure and malicious use of the data that the computer holds. A single $1,000 laptop may hold credit card numbers, private client information and years of accumulated knowledge that could cost an organization millions of dollars in business and lawsuits. A few simple steps can mitigate risk and prevent a devastating loss.

Discover card has higher charge-offs than any other prime lender. The only reason people have it is for the cash-back feature, and other cards, like American Express, are beginning to copy that.

Contact the credit card company or financial institution and ask them to put a freeze on the account. And alert the bank and the three major credit (reporting agencies).

Continued instability in Iraq is hampering America's plans for the Middle East. Iran is ready to use its Iraq card to protect its nuclear achievements before it is too late.

Don't let your ATM card out of your sight.

Customers would much rather use a rewards card that will get them air miles or a Discover card that will get them cash back. So the odds that they'll use a private-label card are dimmer.

C redit card would be safer as opposed to cash, obviously.

Credit card lenders are luring consumers onto a minimum-payment treadmill. Consumers don't have the information they need to get off of it.

Credit card interchange fees are the third-largest expense for many chain drug stores after rent and the cost of labor.

Credit card companies do not take victims as seriously without a police report.

Credit card companies, credit unions, many retailers, as well as the American people, have lobbied for bankruptcy reform for years.

Credit card companies are really looking hard at this industry. It's been $30 billion in cash sales, but they want to see that $30 billion in credit.

Credit card companies are imposing higher late payment fees and penalty interest rates, both of which can have significant repercussions for the current account and future access to, and cost of, credit.

European governments have a card they could play in the current crisis: token assistance in the rebuilding of Iraq, which would largely stick the United States and the United Kingdom with the entire tab.

There should be another chair before us, with an accompanying name card that reads director of national intelligence,

There's no doubt, if you want to be successful on the Internet, that aligning yourself with the postal service probably isn't a bad idea. We hope to play that trump card an awful lot.

The traditional bait and switch approach to credit card marketing doesn't work online. On the web, consumers are in the driver's seat. They are actively shopping for a card that meets their needs. Sites that make that process easy outperform those that don't.

The time table Secretary Card spoke of was, in fact, the time table General Blum had committed the night before to Governor Blanco to meet.

I started this business by borrowing $18,000 on my credit card and cashing in my retirement in 1993. Nobody gave me anything.

I sincerely believe he did try to talk Card out of it, he didn't want to accept this ... and I was told that by somebody who has some knowledge of it.

I've concentrated in Japan. I didn't feel I was ready to come here. My sister did the opposite. She came here and kept her card over here for a few years. We just took different directions.

I've been here 10 years and we've never failed to make the playoffs, so that's our goal this year. Win the conference to guarantee us spot. I don't want to get into that wild card situation. I still think it's going to be us and Rose in the conference and we should definitely be the best team.

I've been in the company since 1981 and involved in the card business since 1984, and I believe we are in the strongest position we've been in, ... I remain confident in our overall network strategy and our relationship with MBNA going forward.

The whole name of the game in banking right now is trying to generate high-interest-yielding assets. That's what the credit card business is. Everyone has these deposits right now. They have to put them to work.

The wild card is whether consumers are really going to come out in the holidays for the Xbox 360 or just wait for Sony next year.

The wild card is how the Supreme Court will treat them.

The wild card is capital gains distributions. So you have to be very careful when you're changing your portfolio.

The wild card here is if they can rebuild their consumer franchise. In order to do that, they need to have some aggressively priced products below $1,000 in the marketplace for Christmas of next year. I think they can do that.

The sales process has to be more tightly regulated to ensure that consumers get all the information upfront and are not bamboozled with offers for taking out the card whilst the sky-high interest rates are barely mentioned.

I've seen cases of parents with bad credit that use their kid's name to get utilities. Other cases involved friends with addiction or gambling problems that steal your personal information to open credit card accounts.

I've never lost my card in 20 years and I'm very proud I can say that at the age of 42,

It was the result of an incorrect communication through a third-party network provider that affected Visa check card users. The transaction was supposed to result in an authorization, not a hold.

It was very last minute. The plan originally was to come early and play doubles and take it easy for the Open. When I was told I got the wild card I practically kissed (the organizer).

It was an equipment problem in Mansfield in our Card Street substation.

The shelter dogs are always appreciative. They don't get to do this fun stuff, and this is a get-out-of-jail-free card for the day.

These documents are forged. I have never done anything to a youngster. All these documents are forged and can be purchased on the streets of Baghdad. I can purchase a card like that saying the judge Rauf (Abdel Rahman) is 25 years old.

These days, checks are direct-deposited, money comes out of a machine in the wall, and we swipe a plastic card to make a purchase. In other words, your kids can grow up thinking money comes in an endless supply if you don't show them otherwise.

The Starbucks Card is so successful because they have people going there five times a week. Not many places are going to have that kind of success.

The smart card is a developed card of multiple advantages and can serve both citizens and residents.

The team is playing for first place in the wild card now, so we've got to keep fighting.