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These increased up-front costs are small, if they exist at all: The most comprehensive study of “green” building (“Green Building Costs and Financial Benefits” at www.masstech.org) shows that an approximately 2% cost premium of $3 to $5/ square foot leads to average savings discounted at 5% over 20 years of $5.80 in energy, $1.70 in waste emission and water, $8.50 in operations and maintenance, aside from the large but debatable productivity and health benefits...
...team racing, three boats from one team compete against three from another head-to-head, and the team with the lowest combined score wins. Team racing, usually a rite of the spring season, places a premium on a team’s strategy, tactics and experience...
...film industry's business model, which is founded on a tightly controlled schedule of when and where the public sees movies. That schedule is broken up into windows. The box-office window is followed by the pay-per-view window, and then the DVD window opens, followed by the premium-cable window. The studios maximize their profit by selling licenses for each phase. If peer-to-peer networks can offer movies while the films are still in theaters, the whole revenue stream could be undermined. "We have less issues with technology overall than the lack of the ability to enact...
...service called Movielink, which offers movies for downloading to your computer at about the same time they hit the pay-per-view window. Not only do the movies take hours to download, but they also disappear from Movielink's catalog altogether 90 days later, when they enter the premium-cable window. Because channels like HBO and Starz! offer lucrative licensing deals, Movielink has not been able to compete in the latter window. "We'll see this business become a true mass market," says Jim Ramo, CEO of Movielink. "It's just a matter of time...
...save us from having to stop anywhere. Combining electronic navigation with real-time traffic reports from XM satellite radio, the system can offer alternate routes when the usual way home is jammed. It debuts in 20 markets for the 2005 Acura RL and Cadillac CTS. You'll pay a premium over XM's basic subscription rate. The equipment is standard for the Acura model but a $3,000 option for the Cadillac...