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...Angeles there is only one rather minor incentive to retrofit: low-cost city loans to repair unreinforced masonry. San Francisco, says Iwan, more than five years after the Loma Prieta quake, is ``having a great deal of difficulty implementing anywhere near the kinds of retrofit regulations and laws that Southern California has,'' even though ``there are some very hazardous buildings there,'' many concentrated around Chinatown. In an era of government cutbacks, neither the state nor Washington seems likely to foot the bill. Insurance companies are not much help either. After picking up about half of the $20 billion losses from...
...There used to be a lot of low-cost cafeterias that would serve residents and students, now the cheapest meal you can get is at the Tasty," Born adds...
...here's a happy scene: a dozen glamorous models wearing cherry-red smocks are cooing contentedly in a dim room, hunched over Virtual Boy, Nintendo's long-awaited, low-cost virtual-reality rig for Everyman. Or Everyboy. Or Everygirl. Whatever. The women are learning how to demonstrate it, fooling around with a prototype of a boxing video game. ("Face down in the goggles, please. That's it. Click here to throw a right, there to throw a left, and don't forget to duck!") But hurry. It's 7:30 a.m., and the wide glass doors are about to swing...
Regardless of whether the initiative passes, Keller says Harvard Real Estate and the city of Cambridge will be holding discussions over the next few months on the future of low-cost housing...
...which requires that cable programmers like HBO and Showtime offer their services to any competing delivery system at comparable prices.) The oldest of these competitors is so- called wireless cable, which collects programming with large satellite dishes and sends it to homes via microwave transmitters. Wireless companies provide a low-cost alternative to cable in a number of cities, such as Houston, New York City and Cleveland, Ohio, but have traditionally been hampered by limited capacity (only about 30 channels in most systems). But wireless operators, like cable, are preparing to upgrade to digital technology, which could expand their capacity...