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...Finally, the quote that began it all, from one of my favorite '70s songs: "There's not a problem that I can't fix...
CASH PLUS The next time you visit the ATM for a quick fix of cash, don't be surprised if you stay for the entertainment. This week in California, Wells Fargo is introducing a new breed of cash machine that treats customers to news headlines, advertisements and movie trailers while they do their banking. The downside? Longer ATM lines while that guy in front of you watches the X-Men trailer for the tenth time...
...certainly been a successful ship, and it's beautifully constructed. I often ask myself where it all came from. Reminds me of a man named Ted who we hired to fix our house on Cape Cod after it was nearly destroyed in a storm. He poured the concrete for the foundation, built the side walls, built the siding, constructed the roof, installed the windows, and everything else. When he was done, he called him me out and asked if I liked it. He did a great job, and while he was looking at the house as a whole, he turned...
...near you. The music biz's Big Five - Sony, Bertelsmann, EMI, Universal and Time Warner (corporate cousin to this web site) - which control 85 percent of the $15 billion CD market, settled with the FTC Wednesday on charges that they've been leaning for years on music retailers to fix CD prices by threatening to withhold promotional budgets from stores that don't adhere to a so-called "minimum advertised price" (MAP). The three-year price-fixing binge, according to FTC chairman Robert Pitofsky, cost consumers a total of $480 million. The MAP programs will now cease, and teen-idol...
...such efforts have triggered grumbling inside the Pentagon. Some officers see the food-stamp issue as a mere symbol, a problem for which pols can come up with a "fix," declare victory and then desert the military force's deeper woes. "Food stamps are only a sound bite," says Joyce Raezer of the National Military Family Association, which fights to improve the lot of military families. "There are a lot more pressing issues." Housing, for example: there are 500,000 old and decrepit military housing units needing repair. McCain's plan to reduce the number of troops on food stamps...