If you are buying two tickets, for example, you can use your points to buy one ticket and use your Citicard for the other ticket, while earning additional points, says Ralph Andretta, head of co-brands and loyalty at CitiCards, which allows consumers to apply even a small number of points to their ticket purchases.

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Even if they were, this is a brute with a number of weak points, and again I come back to that battery life.

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There has even been a surprisingly large number of bonds issued with interest rates of ten percentage points or more above the yield on Treasury bills usually an indicator that a company is in grave difficulties and might default.

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Rather than being in the range of 20 to 23 points to win the group that number may even fall below the 18 points that Mexico won the group with in 1997.

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That has only been possible because the number of people in work has fallen by four percentage points in that time, the number of hours worked has fallen even more.

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Vechey also points out that even after the cutbacks, PopCap will end the year with roughly the same number of employees it started the year with.

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