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...will succeed only if they can match rates with burners. Green Mountain scored a big victory in February, when an energy-buying aggregate in northeastern Ohio handed over more than 400,000 customers. "It's attractive that Green Mountain has some different energy sources, but that wasn't the paramount issue," says Thomas J. Coyne Jr., mayor of Brook Park, Ohio. "The bottom line is, How do we save the most money for the customers?" Green Mountain beat competitors by 1% to 3%; the buyers' aggregate allowed the company to reduce marketing costs and therefore the retail price...
...Still, you can’t have a newspaper without news; serious matters such as these are as worthy of reporting as lighter ones. But publicity inevitably places everything in an unsympathetic light. Seeing fellow students suffer highlights that whether an individual actually did something wrong is not always paramount in the eyes of the media (and the subsequent gossip network). The news generally consists solely of events, e.g., being charged with a crime and the events following that charge. And unfortunately, with the exception of the O.J. Simpson case, an accusal is always a larger news event than...
...will succeed only if they can match rates with burners. Green Mountain scored a big victory in February, when an energy-buying aggregate in northeastern Ohio handed over more than 400,000 customers. 'It's attractive that Green Mountain has some different energy sources, but that wasn't the paramount issue,' says Thomas J. Coyne Jr., mayor of Brook Park, Ohio. 'The bottom line is, How do we save the most money for the customers?' Green Mountain beat competitors by 1% to 3%; the buyers' aggregate allowed the company to reduce marketing costs and therefore the retail price...
...thousand years ago, the man in the middle of this potentially deadly tug-of-war was the high priest. The position, ritually paramount at the Temple, had been politically hobbled by Herod. Nonetheless, as head of the Sanhedrin, a Jewish religious and civic body, and a key participant at city council meetings, the officeholder still had great power and responsibility...
...Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, live with their daughters, now 12 and 11, in the same 20-room manor the Queen gave the couple as a wedding present. This winter the Yorks vacationed together in Switzerland. "The welfare and lives of the children are of paramount importance," explains David Pogson, a spokesman for the Duke of York. Two years after their marriage was annulled, Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall are once again sharing meals--though not bedrooms--in Hall's home outside London. Jagger was a lousy husband, Hall says, but he remains a great father...