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...ruling in favor of Verizon's V Cast, but it beats Sprint only by a narrow margin, mostly because of its lower price. Download speeds and picture quality are the same for both, yet Sprint's streaming channels aim toward a future that Verizon seems to be ignoring. The truth is, for the first time in years, Sprint customers have reason to feel good about their carrier. That is, provided they live in a Power Vision service area, can get their hands on a phone like the Samsung a900, and are willing to pay the extra Power Vision fees...
...where HSBC previously had only a minor presence in the form of Marine Midland Bank, which it bought in the '80s. In 1999 HSBC acquired Republic New York Corp. for $9.7 billion. In 2003, in a move that signaled HSBC's determination to shift into higher-margin consumer businesses, HSBC paid $14.4 billion for Household International, a provider of car loans and credit cards to less affluent Americans. Bobby Mehta, CEO of HSBC in North America, believes there is still potential in the U.S. market. He says strong loan growth in the third quarter of 2005 produced a 9.5% jump...
...margin of defeat was rail-thin. Out of over 22,000 votes cast, there were just seven more nays than yeas. But short of a recount, the contract is dead-a stark reversal of fortunes for Transport Workers Union president Roger Toussaint. During the strike, the former subway car cleaner survived the wrath of millions of nettled commuters just long enough to win some real concessions from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). Toussaint faces possible jail time for the strike, not to mention the millions in fines leveled at the union, but he had managed to preserve pensions and lock...
...found the back of the net three times in the first 7:48 of the final period, forging the cushion the Crimson had labored to prevent for 40 minutes. Shannon Clement scored on a deflection and Lindsay Hansen forced home a rebound to push the margin to 4-1 before Nicole Hekle and the Wildcat power play finally broke through for the game’s final goal on the unit’s sixth try. Before that point, the Harvard penalty kill had excelled on the Whittemore Center’s wide ice surface in erasing five penalties?...
...committee projected a $40.7 million deficit this fiscal year and warned of deep deficits continuing into the next decade.The committee projected a deficit of $78.7 million by 2010, though Campbell said that number will more likely total over $100 million once rising utility costs and a “margin for error” are taken into account. The total is more than 10 percent of the Faculty’s approximately $1 billion operating budget this fiscal year.“We can’t let the future look as bad as this,” Campbell added...