Things like hidden fees and traps on credit cards and student loans cost working American billions of dollars.
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The time for hiding tricks and traps in the fine print is over.
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In New Zealand the brush tail possum is thought to harbour bovine TB, and is killed using poison and traps.
For example, if you take away a poacher's snares and traps he's likely to quit the business rather than buy more.
He hunts and traps muskrat, caribou and bear for their meat and pelts, driving an ATV or hiking up into the hills to find them.
Naturally there are all kinds of tricks and traps to hinder you, and you can even design your own levels to frustrate your friends.
For example, the best-selling items in SkyMall's history were a nose hair trimmer and a mosquito magnet (a net that attracts and traps insects), quantity-wise and dollar-wise, respectively.
Here are some tricks and traps to be alert to, courtesy of Gerri Walsh, vice president of investor education at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (Finra), the securities industry's self-regulatory body.
The Consumer Bureau's goal across consumer markets is to give people the confidence and peace of mind that the financial world is not full of tricks and traps that will ruin their lives.
An even bigger threat looms in China and India, which are pushing to receive credits for carbon capture, which strips CO2 from the output of fossil fuel electric plants and traps it underground.
Abandoning the plan to fit the "catapults and traps" needed by the F35-C to one of the carriers while mothballing the other, opened up the possibility that both could eventually become operational, it argued.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has singled out the greater Salt Lake region as having the nation's worst air for much of January, when an icy fog smothers mountain valleys for days or weeks at a time and traps lung-busting soot.
Although the government never quite specified what would happen to the Queen Elizabeth if the Prince of Wales was fitted with highly expensive "cats and traps" for the more capable fighter, there was a strong presumption that it would be mothballed or sold, leaving the country with one carrier, able to provide cover around 60% of the time.
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Not to mention that, from downtown LA, one is only about 8 miles from Hollywood, 10 miles from Beverly Hills, and 15 miles due West to the Pacific Ocean and its assortment of beaches and tourist traps in Santa Monica, Manhattan Beach, and the like.
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It also invites users to actively report delays, accidents, hazards on the road, and even speed traps, and also to correct and update its maps, wiki-style.
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Yet the third go-round conventionalizes its hero by throwing him into repetitive struggles with his dark side. (Clothes and the man make each other here, since the black symbiotic substance that's responsible for his darkness and alarming arrogance turns his costume from red and blue to jet black.) And the script traps him and M.
There are structures and stratographic traps, like off West Africa, with oil plays like Angola and Namibia.
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These three commonsense initiatives can help millions make more informed financial decisions and avoid the traps of confused and fine print.
There are certain fundamental steps to take and certain traps to avoid (see chart, below).
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The road to women's equality, it turns out, is paved with potholes, quicksand and death traps.
The explosion was investigated and foul play, including rocket attacks and booby traps, were ruled out, the military said.
But there will be more than a few doglegs and sand traps in the way of this pending merger.
The tax package also tackled some of France's controversial poverty and welfare traps.
The first couple-dozen laps saw brake points blown and sand traps dredged as years of potentiometer dependency was weaned away.
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Zoo staff are currently raising funds to provide weather stations and camera traps to assist researchers in Madagascar to collect environmental data.
So many places cater to people on the move, like the truck stops and gas stations and tourist traps situated along the highways.
"Call of Duty: Ghosts" adds dynamic maps, including natural events such as floods and earthquakes and player-activated obstacles such as doors and explosive traps.
And grease traps must have an inspector, also fine.
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Using a combination of microwaves, lasers, lenses, and ion traps, the researchers were successful at entangling ions using a setup that was only about one-tenth the size of previously successful entanglement experiments.
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According to UN Habitat, the mega-cities of the future, (those with more than 10 million residents) will be "giant potential flood and disaster traps" if insufficient action is taken on behalf of their residents.
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