Articles filed under Washington Post
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You might want to ditch the checking account you opened in high schoolAug 16, 2015 7:32 am - Consumers are creatures of habit -- and that laziness has a cost. It's not unusual for people to procrastinate financial actions until the last possible moment. And once...
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5 financial rules every college student should live byAug 16, 2015 7:31 am - It's time to stuff your suitcases full of all your earthly belongings and go shopping for a hoodie bearing some fearsome mascot. You're headed off to college, perhaps th...
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Your health: Are restaurant meals no better than fast food?Aug 16, 2015 7:00 am - Restaurant meals no better than fast food? Sitting down for a leisurely dinner at a full-service restaurant may sound like a healthier choice than grabbing a ...
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The wrong boss can also ruin your home life. Here's how to prevent it.Aug 16, 2015 7:00 am - What would happen if, instead of overworked and burned out, workers had supportive managers who understood work is just one part of life? What if workers had more contro...
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You can now look up ER wait times, hospital noise levels and nursing home fines on YelpAug 16, 2015 7:00 am - Yelp is adding a ton of health care data to its review pages for medical businesses to give consumers more access to government information on hospitals, nursing homes a...
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How Arby's came to embrace Jon Stewart's jabsAug 16, 2015 7:00 am - If you've been a loyal watcher of "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" in recent years, you know the show has been serving up a steady diet of jokes about Arby's. "It's lik...
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Why CVS is switching from Viagra to CialisAug 15, 2015 11:00 pm - The news that next year CVS Health will drop coverage of Viagra, the little blue pill that spawned a multibillion-dollar industry of erectile dysfunction drugs, would se...
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Origins of Trump's luxury empire lie in father's more blue-collar buildingsAug 15, 2015 11:00 pm - Trump Village, unlike every other property that famously bears that brand, was not named by - or for - the presidential candidate currently upending the Republican Party...
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How doxing went from a cheap hacker trick to a presidential campaign tacticAug 15, 2015 7:40 am - When Donald Trump stood on a South Carolina stage three weeks ago and reeled off Senator Lindsey Graham's phone number to a tittering audience, he no doubt believed he w...
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Democrats think they've figured out how to turn the Uber wars to their advantageAug 15, 2015 7:35 am - WASHINGTON - At a time when fast-growing companies like Uber are giving struggling American workers a fresh source of income - but not necessarily steady or reliable emp...