T-Mobile gets some credit for addressing the negative connotations of a legally binding agreement and an early termination "fee, " but if you want to keep the phone you obtained at the discounted price, you'll have to keep paying monthly installments until it's paid off.

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When clients try to end their contracts early, Cintas calls their attention to the binding-arbitration clause dictated in the contract.

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In the early 1990s, dermatologist Kevin Cooper, then at the University of Michigan, observed that the binding of CD-2 to LFA-3 set off psoriasis' chain reaction.

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