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December 8, 2003
High-speed price wars
Lots of talk about cheaper high-speed acess. The Bell operating companies and others cut prices to compete against the cable companies, who are winning high-speed contest. One worry from a consumer view: the prices may be too low to cover the cost, says an analyst with The Yankee Group.
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How many unmarried Americans
Had reason to look up how many unmarried Americans there are. The Census Bureau has the answer. It's part of the Population and Household Economic Topics series. The Census Bureau is a great resource, but it's been difficult sometimes to find what I've wanted on the site.
Posted by eubie at 7:02 PM permalink
Out with the old
Cigarette maker R.J. Reynolds is no longer the lead sponsor of NASCAR's premiere series, which Reynolds had for 33 years. Here's an insightful story originally published in Sports Business Journal of How NASCAR outgrew RJR's tobacco-stained image. Now the series will be sposored by Nextel, a wireless company.
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