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Oct 17, 2006 Young and healthy? You need disability insurance

QUOTE: Employers usually provide short-term disability or sick leave. But fewer offer long-term disability for non-work-related injuries or problems, and you could be on your own if you don’t get better quickly. (Workman’s compensation, which employers are required to provide, only applies to work-related injuries. Social Security also offers a long-term disability benefit, but most financial planners say it is barely sufficient to cover basic expenses.)

 Fort Wayne Journal Gazette/News-Sentinel (Indiana)
Jan 30, 2005 Hard to Uncouple

QUOTE: Fights about money aren't about the cash you have or don't have. There's generally something else going on -- someone's scared, hurt, trying to buy their way to happiness or being miserly because they fear being poor.

 Washington Post
Jan 18, 2005 Quicker and Quicker Quicken Sunsets

QUOTE: ...features that were essential to many customers choosing to buy Quicken in the first place -- such as downloading account data from their financial institutions, on-line bill pay, and getting stock quotes -- are essentially being turned off for users of the 2001 and 2002 versions.

 InfoWorld
Sep 11, 2000 Behind Amazon's Preferential Pricing: Are Some Amazon.com Customers More Equal Than Others?

QUOTE: Here's what I think Computerworld caught Amazon doing: It's called "dynamic pricing," and in this case it involves putting customers into groups based on how price-sensitive they appear to be....I don't like the idea that someone is paying less than I am for the same item at the exact same instant.

 ZDnet
Jul 13, 0201 Report: Unauthorized phone charges cost Americans $2 billion a year

QUOTE: A key Senate chairman says Congress needs to pass legislation to protect customers from unauthorized third-party charges on their phone bills because the telephone industry has failed to prevent the practice.

 CNN (Cable News Network)