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...city reserves the right to implement time, place, and manner restrictions, and identified a 50-cent peddler’s permit that would allow Kibler to continue his business. O’Brien said that Kibler soon left the book stand.O’Brien said he tried to obtain this permit, but found himself mired in the city’s bureaucracy. When the city granted his request in Sept. 2006, the permit included restrictions that put him on MBTA property. In June 2008, MBTA officials asked him to move, but O’Brien said he refuses...
Still, both companies see short- and long-term upsides to joining forces. Chrysler is in dire straits, considered the closest to collapse of the Big Three. The $4 billion in federal loans it received last month to help keep it afloat, and the additional $3 billion it hopes to obtain in March, carries the stipulation that the company move quickly to find ways to produce smaller, more fuel-efficient models, which have long been Fiat's bread and butter. "A Chrysler-Fiat partnership is a great fit," said Chrysler chairman Bob Nardelli in the joint communiqué. "It creates...
...negligent” as a cover-up for violations of individuals’ rights in a variety of circumstances. For example, policemen might conduct unwarranted searches claiming that they forgot to file the warrant papers or that they thought they had a warrant even though insufficient evidence existed to obtain...
...obtain the pioneering images, technicians at the Prado used special cameras to take more than 8,200 photographs of the paintings over the course of three months. Those images were then connected and layered using the same Google Earth technology that allows a viewer to zoom in on a street or a house almost anywhere on the globe. (To see the works, users must download the Google Earth application, enter "Prado masterpieces" in the search window and then click on the icon representing the museum...
...relevant with the rise of the Internet and information technology such as wireless communications. His first task will likely be to oversee the nation-wide transition to digital television that Congress has set for Feb. 17. Obama has already asked for a delay to allow Americans more time to obtain coupons for converter boxes for their analog TV sets. During the campaign, Genachowski backed Obama’s support for net neutrality, advocating against allowing Web sites to pay a premium for faster delivery of content. The campaign’s technology platform focused on more widespread and affordable Internet...