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...Texting is a major contributor to the industry's profitability," says David Barden, a senior research analyst at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Among the Big Four national players, texting brings in an average of $8 per month per customer in revenue, he estimates, and generates about 25% of raw operating profit (excluding equipment subsidies...
...vote for any of the three bills on the table. Representative Mike Ross, an Arkansas Democrat and a leading member of the Blue Dogs, the fiscally conservative House Dems, said this week that he would not vote for any bill that includes a public plan. If there was one major casualty of the talk of death panels, Nazi comparisons and screaming matches at all those town-hall meetings - which reverberated through the echo chamber of cable-TV news - it was the public plan. Democrats had hoped to include a government-run insurance program in the bill...
...hear and to understand what connects these issues." Still, speeches only get a person so far, even in Washington. If Obama wants to salvage his top priority, he must form a concrete plan and remind Democrats that, as happened in 1994, failure to pass legislation now will cause major political damage come next November...
...Portugal, Italy and Morocco to the Andalusian town of Isla Cristina on Sept. 11 - includes sessions on everything from the different types of boats used to the traditional uses of unlikely tuna parts (eyes, it seems, contain an excellent oil). "But you can bet the ban will be a major topic of conversation," López says. "These people want to know if they're still going to have a job next year...
...unnecessary. But given ICCAT's track record of failing to evenly enforce its own limitations, WWF's MacLoughlin doesn't see that as a likely outcome. "Maybe in the E.U. the quotas are working," he says. "But as long as you've got countries like Libya where the major commercial interest in the industry is controlled by the leader's son, and there's no respect either for science or for the rule of law, a temporary ban on all trade is going to be the only way to save the fishery." (See pictures of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi...