In response to my earlier post about one of our credit cards being closed due to inactivity, long-time reader and regular commenter BG mentioned that he and his wife have upwards of 150 credit cards.

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The taxi time was extraordinarily long due to the distance to the departure runway.

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Employers have been grappling with the issue of whether FICA tax is due on severance payments to laid-off employees for a long time.

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Indirect costs will likely include the loss of proprietary business information during intrusive inspections by international monitors and lost production time due to these inspections -- that may take as long as ten business days.

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Pakistan's Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf is due to travel to India for the first time on Saturday for a day-long pilgrimage, officials say.

BBC: Pakistan's Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf

Castro also said that it's normal for a patient's face to swell up after being on a ventilator for a long time, though he also speculated the puffiness could be due to medications Chavez has been taking.

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Due process guarantees under the taxpayer bill of rights can allow taxpayers to go a really long time without paying, offer to settle for substantially less than the full amount and then appeal a rejection of that offer to Tax Court.

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But they call for special attention due to the implications of spread of radioactivity with long term consequences including genetic effects on the population and the long time span required to bring back normalcy to the environment.

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Ponzi schemes such as those run by Bernard Madoff (150 years in prison) and Allen Stanford (110 years in prison) are notable cases where the public hardly batted an eye at those prison terms due to the harm done (billions lost) to so many people (thousands) over a long period of time (decades).

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