Mr. Ice would help them with Chapter 13 filings that enable individuals, with a judge's blessing, to get rid of credit-card, car-payment and other debt.

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But remember, the ABA is the same group fighting hard to get rid of the proposed limits on debit card swipe fees that are lucrative for banks.

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Here's the scoop: CableCard is literally a card that you pop into the back of your TV set so that you can get rid of your digital cable box and plug that coax directly into your digital TV (it's sort of like how you can use analog cable on a cable-ready analog TV without a cable box).

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Little South Dakota agreed to get rid of its usury laws, and Citibank, by exploiting a loophole in federal law, set up its card operations there and was able to evade usury laws throughout the nation.

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" Unlike the West, says Catherine Allen, founder of U.S.-based Smart Card Forum, the region "does not have the embedded infrastructure of magnetic-stripe cards to get rid of.

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