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...fashion shows in a downtown plaza across from its main office. One M & T teller at a drive-up window hands out dog biscuits to customers with pets in their cars. The bank tries to make elderly customers feel at home by serving coffee and doughnuts and providing low-cost checking accounts with reassuring names like Worry Free...
...center of the state, and the Lake Ontario port of Oswego. It makes the trip west and north empty, completing the run in about 16 hours. It makes the trip back loaded with some 1,600 tons of cement. And the ship does it cheaply, carrying its high-bulk, low-cost cargo for less than the cost of sending it by either train or truck, which is, Kaldefoss explains, why the vessel is still working. Commercial traffic on the Erie Canal has all but disappeared; the Erie Navigation Co. of Erie, Pa., which owns and operates the Peckinpaugh...
...result, buyers who do comparison shopping must select their computers on the basis of increasingly esoteric technical specifications. IBM alone sells seven basic variations on its bestselling model, ranging from the low-cost PCjr to the top-of-the-line IBM PC AT. To distinguish between these machines, consumers have to measure memory in kilobytes and disc storage in megabytes. To understand the pros and cons of IBM-compatible computers built by AT&T, Compaq or Hewlett-Packard, they must learn to identify silicon chips by name and measure their speeds in millions of cycles per second...
WHAT DO YOU DO when you have a power plant which, on the one hand, can provide low-cost, low-pollution energy for several hospitals, but on the other hand, might kill four people in 40 years...
...Luddite irrationality of the protesters, or it can recognize finally that MATEP has been scrutinized more than enough. Certainly MATEP poses some environmental risks, but they are much less severe than those from other plants. And given the extensive safeguards in place and the obvious value of low-cost, reliable energy for the hospitals, it's time for the state to approve the diesels...