According to the LowCards.com Complete Credit Card Index, the average advertised credit card APR is currently 14.08%, up from 11.64% in May 2009, the week the CARD Act passed.

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The website also features a video interview with Mike Absalom, a singer-songwriter, poet and artist whose Save The Last Gherkin For Me (1968) was 001 in Peel's card index system.

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Each time she tells a joke she has it printed on an index card and then files it away.

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He tapped the index card on the table as he pronounced each syllable.

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Upon check-in, you were issued an index card that was either pink and read EXAM in Magic Marker or was purple and tagged COLLECTION.

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The word written on an index card (changes for each game).

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That same concept can be dropped into cataloging, where even in the old days, when librarians described books within the boundaries of a physical index card, great variation still occurred.

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If a restaurant chooses to note your preferences, that information may be typed into its OpenTable System manually just as a restaurant might write a note on an index card.

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The GenVault plate, the size of an index card and slightly thicker, contains 384 tiny wells, each lined on the bottom with special paper and prefilled with a strand of synthetic rice DNA, varying in length and sequence.

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The index tracks credit-card purchases of diesel fuel at truckstops across the country and provides a real-time indication of how much freight is moving from ports and factories to consumers.

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As the Fiscal Cliff debate diffuses into so many Three-Card Monte games during 2013, perhaps the clarity of the Government Affordability Index can prevent us from being tricked, over and over and over again.

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In fact, an experiment showed that greater Facebook use was associated with a higher body-mass index and increased binge eating, as well as a lower credit score, and higher levels of credit card debt for consumers with many close friends in their social network.

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