The key is to have a credit-card battle plan in place long before arriving on campus.

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The fee fight has morphed into a titanic Washington lobbying battle pitting credit-card companies and big banks such as J.

WSJ: Merchants Win Debit-Card Fee Battle

The battle over debit-card transaction fees has moved from the legislative to the regulatory arena as the Federal Reserve sets the rules behind the new laws.

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Add it all up, and a Yankee team that many predicted would do season-long battle for the Wild Card wound up taking its division handily with 97 wins.

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After a few years of rolling back credit limits and restricting access to new accounts, credit card issuers have entered a new battle over consumers with good to excellent credit scores.

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Credit card reform gives them more weapons in their competitive battle to boost sales and build loyalty.

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Both firms are battle-hardened survivors and have big insurance, credit-card and investment-banking operations.

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These transactions come right out of your Battle.net account balance, which can be funded by credit card, or PayPal.

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