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Lurking in Tiny Type Big Traps Lurking in Tiny Type   "Your
credit has been approved." "Not so fast," whispers the fine
print. By now, you may have grown so accustomed to the fine
print in contracts and mail offers that you've stopped reading
it, or worrying about it. That's a mistake. When you sign up for
a credit card, buy or lease a car. or enter into almost any
financial agreement, you're accepting a host of terms. Many of
them are buried in a dense thicket of legalese that can be
difficult to read and even harder to understand. But if you
don't take the trouble to make sense of them, the conditions,
exclusions, and exceptions can end up costing you serious money.
If you think you're seeing more fine print than ever these days,
you're probably right. Much o