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You can’t avoid paying for car insurance, but you can avoid paying too much
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Unless you want to take the bus, you need car insurance. If you’re going to drive, it’s the law in all 50 states. But you can avoid paying too much for it. Here are three ways you can help keep your rate low when it comes time to renew your auto...[Read on] |
Keep your car insurance premium under control
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Car insurance premiums can be unruly. And unless you keep your premium under control it can take over your budget in no time at all. Pretty soon, you’re paying hundreds of dollars a year more than you should be for car insurance, and there’s no m...[Read on] |
Tea Party Women Could Change the Score, Long Term
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(WOMENSENEWS)--It could be the way Republican billionaire Meg Whitman is spending record millions of her own money on her gubernatorial campaign in California and attracting attention to her domestic-worker employment practices.
Or maybe it's the upset v...[Read on] |
How to get the best financing deals on your vehicle purchase
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by Sharleen Benet If you're buying a new car or a truck or any other vehicle, you would look for the price you're getting on the purchase of the vehicle. You must look for ways you can get the best financing deals on your new vehicle purchase. There ar...[Read on] |
Women Score Serious Grammy Noms
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The music business is one place where women are really dominant and present in a big, big way.
The Grammy nominations were released yesterday and Beyonce led all nominees with 10 (she also got a nomination for a song she helped write for the film Cadilla...[Read on] |
Women Score at the Gotham Awards
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Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker started off the awards season with a win for best feature at the IFP’s Gotham Awards. The event also included a tribute to director Bigelow. We shouldn’t read too much into the win but last year’s winner Froze...[Read on] |
What was Pepsi thinking?
| WTF? No exactly sure what they were thinking, but Pepsi recently created an iPhone application called "AMP UP Before You Score" -- aimed at helping men "score" with women -- to promote its AMP energy drink.
The application provides pick-up lines and othe...[Read on] |
Rental Car Insurance Coverage: Do You Need It?
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When you rent a car do you automatically buy rental car insurance? Did you know your rental car may already be covered through your car insurance policy?
Avoid Buying Duplicate Car Insurance CoverageWhen you are thinking about renting a car, say for y...[Read on] |
Backers Say Warren Has Time to Make Her Mark
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(WOMENSENEWS)--Legal scholars predict that the appointment of Elizabeth Warren to lead the new Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection will be a boon for everyday Americans, especially low-income women who have struggled with crushing credit card, student...[Read on] |
My Subprime Life
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The mortgage broker sounds like she cares. Through my sniffles, she listens and nods and hands me tissues as I confide to my new BFF—though for the life of me I could not recall her name then and I cannot now—“I’m getting divorced.”
“Oh dear...[Read on] |
Electric launches women’s collection
| Electric Visual announces the release of the Women’s collection, web page
Electric feels it’s time to give credit to a facet of our company that has been instrumental this past decade – the women’s collection. As defining and influential as any o...[Read on] |
In Exquisite Detail, Donald Trump Describes How He Styles His Hair
| Courtesy of PatrickMcMullan.com.In the latest issue of Rolling Stone, postmodern performance artist Donald Trump reveals his haircare secrets. Drumroll, please O.K., what I do is, wash it with Head and Shoulders. I don’t dry it, though. I let it dry by ...[Read on] |
Equal Pay for Equal Work: Still a Myth in the Legal Profession
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by Kavitha Sivashanker, Fellow, National Women's Law Center
A new study released this week highlights the difficulties that female partners face in law firm compensation systems, and analyzes the factors contributing to the large pay disparities between...[Read on] |
2016 Olympics in Chicago? Nastia Liukin, President and Michelle Obama say “yes”
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Personally, I think it would be cool to have the Olympics in Chicago in 2016. Nastia Liukin thinks so (click picture below), as well as President and Michelle Obama – they’re traveling to Copenhagen today to pitch Chicago’s bid to the International ...[Read on] |
Spare Change and a Big Lesson
| My favorite way to spend time is outside a coffee shop, with a delicious cappuccino, a good book, and some sunshine. This is my ideal me time, and the less interruptions, the better. In fact, I’m known to even put my Blackberry away, with the ringer t...[Read on] |
What Sports and Conversations With My Father Taught Me
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I rode on the Blue line, Westbound toward downtown and beyond. My dad gave me a seat next to the windows and I gazed in wonder toward the glowing ball surrounded by blinking car lights and stop lights.
"What do you think about Sabonis?", he asked.
"I ...[Read on] |
Couric Ratings Rise 22% in Six Months
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Couric’s critics should eat their wordsPost | Today 11:10 am
Remember when naysayers predicted Katie Couric would bomb as anchor for "CBS Evening News"? Well, they were wrong — really wrong.
Page Six reports today that Couric&...[Read on] |
Guess the Sentences in Bristol Palin®’s Forthcoming Memoir
| Unemployed twentysomething dilettante Bristol Palin® has another bullet point to add to her résumé: “Book Writer!!” Politics Daily has unearthed from the recesses of Amazon evidence of an “Untitled Bristol Palin Memoir....[Read on] |
13 year old Casie Cathrea makes a hole-in-one at LPGA Challenge
| Casie Cathrea, a 13 year old golfer from California, shot a hole-in-one at the CVS/pharmacy LPGA Challenge in Danville, Calif. on Thursday. In the opening round – her first on the tour, she made a hole-in-one on the 155-yard 12th hole. AMAZING! Her sc...[Read on] |
Gibson Girls: The Perfect Antidote to Fashion Week Futurism
| Charles Dana Gibson at his summer home near Dark Harbor, Maine, 1940. Credit: Condé Nast Archive. Fashion week is generally about looking forward, assessing developing trends, and discovering new engines of creativity that are likely to determine the way...[Read on] |
6 Ways To Spend Less This Holiday Season
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Financial guru Jean Chatzky reveals how to keep impulse buying in check
As you head to the stores — or online — this Black Friday week, you’d do well to try to keep your impulses in check. Eighty percent of peo...[Read on] |
Elizabeth Taylor: An Immortal Who Knew How to Live
| Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor playing gin while on vacation at La Fiorentina, Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, 1967. Photo credit: Condé Nast Archive. When the stunning news reached New York that George Gershwin had died after undergoing surgery for a brain ...[Read on] |
Christian Louboutin thinks Barbie has "cankles"
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Photograph credit: "Excessive," from the amazing Sara Heart Bacon.
Christian Louboutin is set to release Barbies made over with his stylings over the coming months, but the luxury shoe designer "reshaped the dolls' figures," as he didn't find their exis...[Read on] |
Forget Tupperware: Gold Parties Offer Fast Cash
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Women are getting together to sell unwanted bling to pay household billsPost | Today 11:50 am
Need to pay off your credit card balance? The cable bill? An upcoming mortgage payment? Many women are cleaning out their jewelry boxes and turning discarded r...[Read on] |
Superbowl XLV: Running a football pool
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Now we’re not suggesting that you actually bet on the Superbowl game, but football pools can make watching the game a lot more fun. There are a variety of ways to set up the pool and to pick winners but we’ll tell you how the simplest and most common ...[Read on] |
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