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...That's fine for the environmentally faithful, but clean-power utilities 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...
...this fact, companies like The Princeton Review and Kaplan offer elaborate, expensive test-prep classes to thousands of high school students. For several hundred dollars and a few weeks of time, these companies often guarantee to raise SAT scores by hundreds of points—and they usually succeed. Unfortunately, opportunities for artificially inflating scores are only available to those with enough time and money to take advantage of them. While some companies have made efforts to extend discounted programs into poor areas, these initiatives are no alternative for a full 6-week SAT prep course...
Goodwin spoke at length of her own parents, and the roles they played in encouraging her to succeed, a sentiment emphasized in Lim's address as well...
This is a tough business to take online, and it will need more than a few dazzling new services to succeed. No one knows that better than Napster CEO Hank Barry, who is still earnestly trying to fashion a legal compromise that will keep his company in the game (just like MP3.com which is still alive after losing millions in lawsuits to record labels). Along with Henley and Morissette, Barry tried to sell the Senate on compulsory licenses--giving websites the same status as radio stations, which pay royalty fees for playing music. Says Barry: "It's government intervention...
...looked at each other and asked, 'How could we have been so stupid?' When we saw the wide range of the failures we asked ourselves why it had not been apparent to somebody from the start. I guess you get walled off from reality when you want something to succeed too much. Remember, Sidey, write that book and explain...