Some constituencies gave party cards away to make up numbers.

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Banks recently tried to make up some of those anticipated losses by charging consumers for debit cards, but they quickly abandoned that plan due to customer outrage.

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When I saw this figure, my immediate thought was that perhaps the unemployment rate is higher in San Antonio and so some residents are looking to their credit cards to make ends meet.

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Some of the cards operate like payment plans where borrowers make a purchase from the retailer on the card and then have a number of months to pay it back, interest-free.

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Enterprise does a special insurance check to make sure a customer's policy transfers over, though in some cases credit cards also provide rental-car insurance.

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Thompson writes, I was getting a little too old to make powerful enemies when I had no cards at all, and I had lost some of my old zeal that had led me, in the past, to do what I damn well felt like doing, with the certain knowledge that I could always flee the consequences.

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The Cards didn't make it to the Series, but they did get some poetic justice following their NLCS loss to the Houston Astros.

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