While the Card Act bars issuers from raising rates on existing balances unless a cardholder is at least 60 days late with a payment, there isn't any such prohibition on the Ink From Chase card, one of several business cards offered by the bank.

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So the prohibition won't in theory prevent hedge funds and other investors short-selling French and Italian banks, for example, through offshore exchanges.

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It didn't help that we were smack in the middle of the Depression and Prohibition. (Talk about a double whammy-first, you lose your job, then you can't even get a drink.) I remember a lot of potato soup at home, along with canned peas, canned pears, canned everything.

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Nor are they likely to own up to the reality that their effort to repeal the present statutory prohibition on avowed homosexuals serving in uniform (popularly, though incorrectly, known as "Don't Ask, Don't Tell") will have the effect of destroying the highly successful All Volunteer Force.

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