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Money &Travel admin on 10 Feb 2010
American Airlines To Charge For Blankets, Stewardesses
(FiniteTimes.com) – In an expected move, American Airlines announced today that it would begin charging $8 for pillows and blankets on some flights. A bit more surprising was news that they’d also begin charging passengers for stewardess — now called in-flight consultant — use. Continue Reading »
Money admin on 27 Feb 2009
Administration Touts Numerical Tool To Tackle Economy
(FiniteTimes.com) – It received very little attention when it was revealed as part of President Obama’s 2010 initial budget last week, but a lesser-known provision in the budgetary outline could drastically affect the way Americans deal with money, time and a wide array of other number-critical areas.
“The use of lower-case numbers will have an immediate and substantial affect, pretty much across the board,” said Juan Williams, president-select Undersecretary to the Commerce Department. “This is yet another tool to combat the current economic crisis. We have little letters, why not little numbers?” Continue Reading »
Money &Politics admin on 25 Jun 2008
US Families: Dinner, or Clinton Debt?
(FiniteTimes.com) – Like many families across the country, the Davis’s of Brentridge, Kentucky are finding their daily finances further and further pinched by the souring economy. Don Davis has given up his beloved weekly golf game, Doris Davis has started taking in darning, and the Davis kids have grudgingly agreed to cut back to a basic-tiered cable package for the summer. Their struggle to compromise and cut expenses is being felt keenest, however, in a battle that is being waged at kitchen tables across the country.
“It just seems un-American to have to choose between food and the rising cost of the Clinton debt,” says Don Davis as he putts balls into an old flowerpot in his backyard. “Do we eat, or do we help Hillary pay off her debt? That’s just not right.” Continue Reading »
Money &Politics &U.S. admin on 02 May 2006
Bush Mounts Horse & Buggy Campaign
(FiniteTimes.com) – The White House on Monday announced the latest in a string of initiatives designed to make the American public think they were doing something about the skyrocketing price of gas.
“Operation Horse & Buggy is designed to not only relieve Americans of their need for foreign oil, but also help in that whole theoretical global warming thing,” outgoing Press Secretary Scott McClellan said as he fumbled in his office/box for his shoe lifts. Continue Reading »
