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...years emissions-cap guidelines for the second phase of a federal program to reduce nitrogen oxide by 2010. "I'm worried I'm not being an effective communicator here," he says in frustration during an interview at the company's Dallas headquarters. Although it's the state's biggest buyer of renewable capacity, TXU is now heavily reliant on natural gas, which is subject to wide price swings. A cheaper coal supply would bring down the price of electricity, McCall says, eventually saving customers $1.7 billion a year...
...game more relevant than ever. (HGTV has practically become a financial channel, with shows like Designed to Sell, Buy Me and My House Is Worth What?) We've moved from a manufacturing to a service economy, and the white-collar icons--bye, wheelbarrow, hello, laptop--seem aimed at the buyer willing to shell out $29.99 ($10 or so more than the old edition...
...beauty-world veteran who has worked at Guerlain, Kiehl's and Vivienne Westwood, where he helped launch the designer's fragrance Libertine got his most valuable training from the esteemed beautician Joëlle Ciocco, who taught him about skin. The fashion flock got to know him as the beauty buyer for the trendy Paris boutique Colette, where he developed a beauty corner into a 38-line-strong department...
...even in areas like middle-class Lakeview, where the sea of "For Sale" signs can be daunting (one in three houses, by some estimates), speculators are moving in to buy property - sometimes a whole block at a time - with the classically American conviction that this devastation is a buyer's market not to be missed. "It's the young crowd - 20-, 30- and 40-year-olds who are coming back and making things happen in New Orleans," says Ragan confidently. She should know; a 40-something, she's one of them...
...course, any good real estate agent is service oriented, but there's a world of difference between offering general services and anticipating the needs of a specific demographic. "This age group has very different concerns from [those of] a 30-year-old home buyer," says Tom Stevens, president of the National Association of Realtors. "Going to a Realtor with an SRES designation is like going to a medical specialist...