In exchange for setting up a bi-weekly payment plan, the bank was even willing to drop .25% off of my interest rate.

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It also sends weekly reminders to plan dinners for the week and print out a shopping list and coupons.

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He helped them create a business plan, understand costs and stock control and organize their monthly and weekly activity.

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He dumped that plan when offered a job at the New York Observer, the salmon-colored weekly that lived to tweak the rich and famous, and abandoned journalism for the family business only in 1995, just as his father became a minority owner of Rockefeller Center.

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But just to make sure that the message gets through to Chinese tourists and investors, the husband-and-wife team behind Jeju Weekly, Dr. Kim Gyong Ho and Song Jong Hee, plan to start a Chinese publication in 2011 which will be available in both print and on the web.

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