1.   Barclaycard, for example, has an international rescue number and will arrange emergency cash advances or replacement cards.

2.   To the majority of performers, cash advances of any substance were a rarity, contracts a thing only of myth.

3.   Also, I had to take some cash advances off my credit cards to fund the escrow.

4.   And in November when the news broke that Chubais had accepted a large cash advance on a book about privatization, he lost his title as minister of finance.

5.   At most credit card companies, there is no grace period on new purchases for someone carrying a balance, for cash advances, or for balance transfers.

6.   -- The credit card is used as a deposit or for a cash advance.

7.   Chase processes the transaction as a purchase, so credit-card users are not charged the fee for a cash advance.

8.   Comdata, based in Brentwood, Tennessee, provides information services, including funds transfers, fuel purchases, cash advances and permits, mostly for the transportation industry.

9.   Commenting on the pileup of charges these fees could produce, Ms. Mendler said that Citibank discouraged the use of cash advances through a credit card except in emergencies.

10.   Depending on the offer, consumers also might be able to use the new credit card for a cash advance.