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cramming

The unauthorized addition of services to your telephone bill such as an 800 number that you never ordered. The charges are usually noted on the bill, but are identified in a cryptic manner and/or are printed in a place that is easy to overlook. See slamming.
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While he was collecting a few necessaries and cramming them into his pockets, he never once ceased communing with himself in a low voice, or unclenched his teeth, which he had ground together on finishing Miss Brass's note.
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WASHINGTON, July 28, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a report issued today, the Federal Trade Commission staff recommends steps that mobile carriers and other companies should take to prevent consumers from being stuck with unauthorized charges on their mobile phone bills, an unlawful practice known as mobile cramming.
FTC Recommends Mobile Industry Changes to Combat Mobile Cramming
Attorneys general from 45 states have hailed this is a key breakthrough in the fight against mobile Relevant Products/Services cramming.
United States : 3 mobile Relevant Products/Services giants finally reach agreement
Just as college students this time of year are cramming for final exams and working nonstop to finish term papers, state legislators are doing some cramming of their own this week.
RUSH IS ON IN SACRAMENTO LEGISLATORS HURRY TO OK BILLS AND SEND THEM TO OTHER CHAMBER FOR APPROVAL
FORMER Olympic athlete Steve Cram was banned from driving yesterday for cramming too many people into his car.
Steve car was too crammed
You've known about it for more than a week and now you have 10 chapters to read and memorize, and you're cramming.
This can't wait: if your habit is to wait until the last minute, you need to read this--now. (Handle Your Business)
Don't get into the habit of cramming the bag with gloves, maps, checklists, knee boards, flashlights, books or other TA-50 stuff.
Stuffing with stuff
Recognizing that this proposed change in the rule is intended to prevent Web site cramming, Wasch noted that new developments in the delivery of software and digital content would be unfairly discriminated against.
SIIA URGES FTC: RECONSIDER PROPOSED RULE CHANGE
Police believe students at the cram school, which has branches in Sapporo and Osaka, obtained exam questions from students at Ohu University, located in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, during joint cramming sessions, the sources said.
Dental exam leak may have spread to Tokyo cram school
Faking, flubbing, and cramming with the media's talking heads
Substance Abuse
Xigo CEO Dave Spofford Presented Cramming Data to U.
Unauthorized Phone Charges Costing Americans More Than $2 Billion a Year
Ever wonder why cramming for a test can result in a passing grade but no recollection 6 months later of the material you studied?
Mice, flies share memory molecule

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