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...those who enjoy concerts, sporting events, Broadway shows, or even the Ringling Brothers Circus, Ticketmaster is a necessary evil. The company makes it easy to find seats at most major venues in the U.S. (and many abroad) and various events are aggregated on one easy-to-use web site. What rankles customers, though, is the fact that Ticketmaster's behemoth status seems to give them the ability to impose expensive fees on top of standard ticket prices. (See TIME's Top 10 Songs...
...argument over the Treasury Department's use of new TARP funds and other stimuli focused a great deal on putting $500 billion into propping up banks and another $1 trillion into freeing up credit. Some media outlets put the total number closer to $2 trillion. The truth is there are so many moving parts in the programs that it is easy to see how even the most sophisticated observers might miss a detail...
...more output businesses get for their carbon.) The failure of green business so far to produce a Google-like success story - a company that crushes in the stock market - hasn't helped either. "We're not moving the needle fast enough when it comes to climate, toxicity, energy use," says Makower...
Still, even if a GOP guv were to reject federal stimulus money on principle, the legislation may give state legislatures power to take it anyway - a tool even Republicans in the Texas legislature said this week they're ready to use. But it's unlikely to come to that, especially since governors who oppose the stimulus don't lose anything - and gain a free infusion of cash - when the stimulus dollars start rolling...
...severity of the crisis means that stimulus, love it or hate it, is a train that's pulling into all of their states. So the governors who may stand to emerge looking smartest are those who, as Crist puts it, "know how to adapt to it." And, most important, use it to stay in the black...