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Internships for college students interested in motorsports
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internships is a step in fur
thering the outreach, France
said.
“They have brought fresh
perspectives, new ideas and
enthusiasm to our industry
and we are proud to have
them in our sport,” he said.
Applicants must have com
pleted at least the sopho
more year of college and be
enrolled as an rmdergradu-
ate or graduate student.
Apphcants can be of any age
and must have a minimum
3.0 grade point average for
juiriors or seniors and 3.2 for
graduate students.
Internship opportunities
range from marketing to
ticket sales and engineering
racing machines.
AU interns will be paid a
minimum hourly rate of $6
and are expected to work 40
hours a week from June 1-
Aug. 13, Applicants who
make the cut will attend a
one-day orientation Jime 1
in Charlotte.
Regina Phipps, a Wake
Eagles Nest speaks language of eommunication
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Robinson adds. “The child
can’t run the session.”
Their commitment to indi
vidual instruction and
adherence to high standards
helps, the principals of
Eagles Nest compete as a
private enterprise in a field
dominated by governmental
and quasi-govemmental
agencies, Robinson says.
Wendell Varner, who oper
ates Kiddie Farms Child
Development Center in
Charlotte with his wife
Gloria, says Eagles Nest is a
welcome addition for his
children and their parents.
Eleanor Tolliver of
Charlotte’s First Ward Child
Development Center also
praises the efforts of
Robinson, Gist and Floyd.
Already, Eagles Nest is
dealing with growing pains
as Robinson, Gist and Floyd
work on expansion. They are
adding child care centers to
their roster as well as
recruiting after school care
facihties and charter schools.
Further, they are seeking -
How to make the most of your money
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be as insidious as termites to
the unsuspecting consmner,
particularly those that treat
their statements like
unwanted junk mad. One
only has to look to the exam
ple of the phone companies
and their “hidden charges” to
see how creative companies,
including FIs, can be. The
only remedy is eternal vigi
lance by scanning your hard
copy statements, or checking
via Internet banking or audio
response system if there is a
“giant sucking sound” as fees
are extracted from your
funds. In recent years, one
example has been credit card
companies and FIs imposing
massive penalty charges for
going over your credit limit or
for a late payment - even for
a day. Another trick has been
to charge a 1 percent or
greater cash advance fee for
using one of the “convenience
checks” sent with your state
ment. 'These charges can be
large enough to dwarf the
actual interest rate on the
account, although another
new trick is to shoot your
interest rate from 10 percent
or 12 to 29 percent for one of
these egregious oversights.
FIs are also charging for
falling below your minimum
balance on accounts, for
using your ATM card, for not
using your ATM card, for vis
iting a branch, for a deposit
shp, for writing too many
checks, etcetera, etcetera,
etcetera.
While few of us are anxious
to curl up with a good disclo
sure statement on a rainy
evening, it certainly
behooves us to know what is
going on with our accounts.
Calling your FI after inad
vertently hitting one of these
expensive “tripwires,” like
the credit card convenience
check fee, rarely results in a
satisfactory outcome for most
consumers. Therefore, it’s
best to keep an eye on the
terms disclosed when you
open an account and on any
chemge of terms sent subse
quently.
ATM surcharges- Once
positioned by the banking
industry as a cost savings
over human tellers, ATMs
are now characterized as
expensive equipment war
ranting significant charges
from consumers for their
convenience. Large banks
used the lifting of prohibi
tions against surcharging by
networks (that they control)
to tiy and force a competitive
advantage over smaller FIs
with their large network of
A'TMs. If you use a large
bank and only use their
A'TMs then you’re not paying
surcharges, although you
may pay other monthly fees.
Rarely disclosed is that
ATM-owning FIs already
earn a transaction fee (usual
ly around 45 cents) from the
FI that issued the ATM card.
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Reserve would be in no rush to raise interest rates.
Price impact
The burgeoning trade deficit has weighed on the U.S. doUar,
which has the potential to create inflationary pressures as
Americans pay more for imported goods.
“('The data are) suggesting the decline we’ve seen in the dol
lar over the last couple of years is not having an impact. It sug
gests the dollar may still need to fall to help narrow the trade
deficit. But there’s a risk to higher inflation if it does,” said
Gary 'Thayer, chief economist at AG Edwards & Sons in St.
Louis.
A separate Labor Department report showed the price of
imported goods rose sharply in January, a sign the weaker
dollar may finally be making itself felt on the price end.
U.S. import prices rose 1.3 percent last month, the biggest
climb since February 2003, after a 0.5 percent advance in
December. Wall Street had forecast a milder 0.4 percent gain.
“The weaker dollar and stronger global demand have dou
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months,” UBS wrote in a report.
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