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...shortly after the New Hampshire pledge was announced. Desai told TIME he can't legally disclose how much Scient stock he holds, although the amount may not matter much, as the share value has fallen from $133 to less than $2. But he insists he's good for the dough--if and when the stock market bounces back. "There's been no resizing of the overall pledges," he says. "There's just been discussion about timing...
...American Shipbuilding Association, however, doesn't like to call them subsidies, and is determined to get its dough. It has lined up support from coastal-state Republicans, from Majority Leader Trent Lott (from Mississippi) to Appropriations Committee czar Ted Stevens (from Alaska). Democrat John B. Breaux (from Louisiana) recently wrote Bush that the guarantees should in fact be tripled, to $100 million. Lott cosigned...
...council also voted to try to make fried dough available to students at the event...
Automating a telephone transaction can save lots of dough--as much as 75% off the $5-to-$15 cost of dealing with each call. But, as Paula Skokowski, vice president of marketing at voice-solutions-provider General Magic, notes, "You never see the savings, because everyone is pressing zero-pound" to get to a human. By integrating these newfangled, intelligent virtual-call centers with the rest of a company's Net infrastructure, and then hosting them on their own networks, Tellme, BeVocal and other application service providers hope to make effective customer self-service a reality. One example...
Where's the Dough...