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...landlord wants to keep a small store when he can rent to Sprint with its deep pocket," says G. Pebble Gifford, president of the Harvard Square Defense Fund...
...landlord wants to keep a grocery store when he can rent to Sprint, with its big pocket," Gifford says. "It's the almighty dollar that's changing things around here--it's just that simple...
...matter of fact," he said, pulling some papers out of his pocket, "I work for the Gold Coast Valeteria. Across from The Lampoon. We do laundry, dry cleaning. Very good on rep ties. Would you like to sign up right now? Get it out of the way?" He offered a contract for nine months' service...
That is why most insurers and employers refuse to pay for whole-body CT scans for healthy people. So the "worried well" wind up paying $500 to $600 out of pocket for their imaging tests. Call me cynical, but in this era of managed care, I can't help noticing how that income stream also serves to pay for a lot of very expensive equipment. I'm more concerned, though, that some folks might consider a "clean" CT scan an excuse to forget about doing the things that we know improve health, like quitting smoking, shedding excess pounds or exercising...
...wears a photo ID like the 1,000 other workers in the building and queues up in the cafeteria.) Ollila says Nokia plans to increase phone sales in the U.S.--where it is admittedly vulnerable to the dominance of non-gsm networks--as carriers improve data speeds and pocket Internet really takes...