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...easy and safe way for people to spend money online in small amounts. "Right now there isn't really a viable way for consumers to pay for something that costs 50[cents], because that's about how much a credit-card transaction costs the merchant," says Ken Cassar, an analyst with the e-commerce research firm Jupiter Communications. "It's just not economical for online merchants to sell things that cost less than $10 or $20." Early attempts to create a practical alternative to credit cards for conducting financial transactions online have been slow to gain consumer confidence. One such...
...back to the "Hardball" set, we were euphoric. McCain had won; Gore had prevailed. Not that many citizens seemed to care. They were happier to gather at the bar, watch the brouhaha of producers and set managers, and comment on the attractiveness of the upcoming, female political analysts. This time, we really were going to be famous, because we were primped and prepped and handed a microphone. Again, in the front row of the set, next to an angry man in a dirty T-shirt who really wanted to ask a question about Gore, we tried to keep from eyeing...
...than in-the-ground copper or fiber-optic networks. And in an age of globalization, Vodafone--which also owns AirTouch--could offer to let its users roam freely from nation to nation without having to pay the exorbitant special charges that they face today. Observes Frank Wellendorf, a telecommunications analyst with Westdeutsche Landesbank: "Clearly, Vodafone is in a very good position in comparison to other mobile operators...
...from $52.6 million in 1990 to $164.3 million in 1993. Even if Chiquita sales had reached the level the WTO said they would have in the absence of European restrictive policies, the company still would have recorded losses or, at best, a marginal profit. As a Wall Street investment analyst who tracked the banana industry put it in 1992, "we have serious doubts about the abilities of management to deal with the company's problems...
...strategy was to put the question on the ballot not because it would win. It would have mobilized voters, and the turnout would have been better for tenants," says Glenn Koocher, local political analyst and host of television show Cambridge Inside...