Word: offer
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...modems running at 28,800 to 56,000 BPS. But cable companies are pouring billions into upgrading their networks to handle data traffic over the same wire that brings you ER and championship bass fishing. Tele-Communications Inc., Cox Communications, Comcast and more than a dozen other cable companies offer a high-speed online service called @Home that is available to about 10 million households. Time Warner Cable and MediaOne offer a similar service called Road Runner to 5 million more. Cost: about $40 a month...
Some regional Bell competitors, such as Covad Communications and NorthPoint Communications, are already offering DSL service in parts of Boston, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and other big cities. But service areas are spotty, and DSL is being sold mainly to small and midsize businesses--at prices as high as $250 a month. But now that the industry has just come up with a technical standard for residential service, many carriers are expected to shift their home DSL efforts into a higher gear. US West already offers consumers DSL service in more than a dozen states, for example...
...friendly-looking man, went a couple of extra stops and made $10 giving him oral sex under an apartment-house stairwell before getting back on the train and reaching her destination.) Now in her ninth month of rehabilitation, she's a new woman, unfailingly polite and quick to offer a visitor a snack or a cup of cocoa. Her days are organized around counseling, classes, household chores and visits with a caseworker to help her win back custody of her kids. On Sundays she can sometimes be found sitting in front of the TV in her best dress, watching televangelists...
...primordial ooze; you half expect creatures part fish, part mammal to crawl up out of it, looking to evolve their fins into limbs. Seal pours himself a massive mug of this substance and sits down to talk. He never says precisely what's in the shake nor does he offer a sip to his guests. He's not being rude. He's just being Seal...
...best site I visited, by far, was one available only to 15,000 members of the Kaiser Permanente HMO (I had a guest pass). When you ask nurses there a question, they can access your medical record to help inform their reply. Kaiser plans to offer the ultrasecure, password-protected website to all its 9 million members next year. What will they think of next...