Word: carriers
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...employees had come to Boston from Eritrea, which was an Italian colony until 1941 and a part of Ethiopia until 1993. All of the art on the walls was hand-made in Eritrea, and included paintings of city streets, painted wooden bowls and platters, and a goat-skin baby carrier decorated with cowry shells. The authentic decor, the basket tables, and the smell of spice in the air (cardamom, I thought) distinguish Asmara from the other storefronts in Central Square. Bring a date for an exotic experience, or a group of friends for a memorable night out. Either...
...including those in Harvard-owned spots, have shut down.Last summer, before The Globe Corner Bookstore opened in the library building, the store closed down after 18 years at the corner of Church and Palmer Streets—a space owned by Harvard. When the store closed, co-owner Patrick Carrier told The Crimson that his lease had expired and he could not afford the new lease that Harvard had offered on the same terms.Carrier said he countered with an offer that would have reduced the rent, but Harvard did not respond.As with other Square closings, there were other factors...
...Khoja adds that it's certainly possible to operate a clean business and succeed in Afghanistan. Roshan is the largest carrier in the country. It has a million customers, a market share of about 60% and generated revenues of $100 million in its 2005 fiscal year. But to get there, Roshan had to make plenty of adjustments. Afghanistan has no functioning mail system or credit-card services, so billing methods prevalent in the West couldn't be used. Instead, customers get airtime by purchasing prepaid calling cards from roughly 4,000 vendors who are Roshan franchisees. In Kabul, the vendors...
...questioned the label "non-lethal." Yet even if Tasers pose no risk of death for their victims, at the very least they inflict severe pain. The weapon’s image as a soft replacement for the gun, however, means that their use is taken less seriously by the carrier: Instead of seeing a taser as a serious form of physical coercion, police are sometimes liable to view them as a convenient tool that uses invisible force to get the job done...
While Vodafone, Orange and other major players will probably seek to preserve their investment in 3G for the next few years, the switch to WiMax may be inevitable. Sprint Nextel, a U.S. carrier that doesn't have a massive investment in 3G, effectively staked its future on WiMax in August, when it announced that it will spend up to $3 billion through 2008 building a national WiMax network...