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...software to trim costs by figuring out the best time to replace many components across several product lines, while also introducing product upgrades. An executive with that company tells Time that his firm plans to make greater use of the SmithBayes software. Rival products, he says, can't factor in changes over time like SmithBayes': "Offering options over time is pretty unique to these guys." SmithBayes put its own software to use when it picked a subscription-based business model, instead of licensing the technology or setting up a consultancy. Most clients start with an initial yearly package costing around...
...Democrats are finding that in a handful of districts like Doolittle's, their opponents' ties to Abramoff are helping them raise money and close poll numbers, forcing expensive countermeasures like the Bush visit. And with races tightening across the country, a handful of districts may be enough. The Abramoff factor has put up to five seats in play for Democrats in a contest in which 15 would give them control of the House...
...redistribution of wealth to the poor has been the fundamental factor in explaining why Lula is ahead in the polls," says Carlos Ranulfo de Melo, a professor of politics and author of two books on Brazil's political parties. "There is more money around and it is reaching more people." The purchases made by those people, economists say, are helping breathe life into the economy, especially in the places where it was suffering. While retail sales in the south actually dropped 0.29% in the year ending May 2006, they rose 16% in the impoverished north and northeast thanks largely...
...think that the most important factor is to be able to get your work done,” said Elizabeth M. Penn, assistant professor of government. “Collegiality creates a condition to get your work done...
...didn’t return home until 48 hours after the start of the epidemic.From the start, Rosenthal said UHS, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health pointed to the Union—then the freshman dining hall—as a common factor among the victims. But Harvard authorities were at first reluctant to consider the food as the cause. Michael P. Berry, director of dining services at the time, spoke to The Crimson three days after the crisis began. “There is no evidence that this was a food-borne...