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Energizer and Duracell, having witnessed the inroads a determined Japanese competitor like Fuji could make in film--in retail channels similar to batteries--are on guard. Duracell is promoting the same Oxyride technology in its newly released, higher-priced PowerPix-brand batteries, which, ironically, it acquired from Panasonic in a hush-hush licensing agreement that neither company will comment...
...energy in pulses, it is less effective for things that consume low amounts of energy at a constant rate, like radios and smoke alarms. "Our preliminary tests show that Oxyride is a good cell," says Paul Klatt, a quality-assurance engineer for Batteries Plus, a retail chain specializing in batteries. "But its niche is really higher-drain devices...
...license term common to every nuclear plant in the United States.Zamore’s op-ed chided Entergy for locating its headquarters in conveniently distant Louisiana. Your readers should know that the recently consolidated company has been based in Louisiana for 90 years where it serves 2.6 million retail customers and where it owns and operates five other nuclear plants. It also owns and operates five more nuclear plants in the northeast including Pilgrim Station south of Boston. The northeast headquarters is in White Plains, New York.Zamore also discounted nuclear energy’s role in decreasing fossil fuel...
...found out that he was closer to a heart attack than he had imagined. Steinard had a double bypass last week in New Delhi, where he is recovering CUTTING-EDGE VACATIONS In the U.S. insurers negotiate discounts, but the uninsured pay retail rates for medical procedures. Here's how the prices of one surgical tourism agency compare. Its packages include airfare and hospital and hotel rooms, but costs can climb if there are complications. [This article contains a table and a map. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] Procedure U.S. Insurer's cost U.S. Retail price India Thailand Singapore Angioplasty...
...season. Of course, now that the word is out, traders will try to anticipate the New Year's popand screw up the pattern. So it ever goes on Wall Street, where seasonal stock moves that make sense ultimately disintegrate amid competition to wring the most out of them. Buying retail stocks ahead of Christmas hardly ever works. The "January effect," in which stocks that were sold off for tax reasons at year's end rebound to start the year, now arrives in December. Skepticism is useful anytime a new event-driven strategy surfaces...