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- THE WEEK, Page 21BUSINESSEt Cetera
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- PLASTIC RELIEF
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- Citibank, largest issuer of credit cards in the U.S.,
- announced that as of June 1 it will reward its best customers
- with lower credit-card interest rates -- as little as 13.9% for
- Preferred Members. Other banks will probably follow, taking the
- bite out of congressional complaints about high rates and
- starting a war that consumers can win.
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- A TITAN FELLED
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- Italy's biggest postwar financial scandal brought down an
- industrial titan when Carlo De Benedetti, chairman of Olivetti,
- was sentenced to six years and four months in prison for
- complicity in the 1982 collapse of Banco Ambrosiano, Italy's
- largest private bank. He promises an appeal.
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