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...public and continued to feast on its competitors, including ReserveAmerica, an online company that takes reservations for everything from state park campsites to the Washington Monument. (Buy a ticket for the monument in person and it's free. Buy it in advance online via ReserveAmerica, via Ticketmaster, and it cost...
...example, you can find the back room filled with sparkling rings and necklaces. "Last year, this was the high-end room," says Martin, the owner. "Now, it's the markdown room." Everything's on sale - for example, a $2,500, 18-karat-gold, diamond and amethyst ring now costs $597. "We're selling things at or even below cost," Martin says. "We have to adapt." Bradsdeals.com, an aggregator of retail deals on the Web, features a $48 bead necklace from online jeweler Blue Nile. "I've followed Blue Nile for a long time," says site founder Brad Wilson, who started...
...spreading those values to its network of suppliers. The message is sinking in: a 2008 survey by Johnson Controls found that 72% of building managers are now paying attention to energy efficiency, up 10% from the year before. "We're finally coming to grips with the financial and environmental cost of waste," says Makower. "It's exciting the amount of innovation that's coming out of this." (Read TIME's top 10 green stories...
...aspects of the ongoing recession that may come as a surprise to some observers as events unfold. The first will be the failure of central banks to re-ignite credit growth in the ailing banking system. The second will be the failure of governments' debt expansions to increase the cost of funding. In other words, the long end of the yield curve will continue to be depressed, just as it has been in Japan for the past 16 years. In the early 1990s observers in Japan argued that 10-year Japan government-bond yields of 3.5% could not persist...
...very latest technology in a country like China where the vast majority of subscribers and especially new subscribers are only interested in the bare minimum - and cheapest - service. "Continuing to use 2G allowed many rural users to subscribe who might not have been able to afford the additional cost" of 3G handsets and services, said the executive, who requested anonymity...