No public funding is being used on the system, the DOT says.

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Nelson said DOT started using a Geographic Information System program developed by the conservancy's Adirondack researchers last year.

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With the world economy and stock markets working against them, we saw great results over several years from the merger of two centuries-old tobacco companies in Europe (Altadis), an Indian soap-and-cooking-oils maker that has become of the world's leading software services providers (Wipro) and a for-profit school system that owns an incredibly successful dot.com (Apollo Group).

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If anything, after the dot com, technology, and housing bubbles and financial system meltdown, the nation seems to be craving exactly the type of investment that Social Security represents.

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The large 3.2-inch 921K dot LCD screen makes it easy to preview images or video captured, navigate the menu system or confirm critical HD focus, while automatic brightness control adapts seamlessly to changing lighting conditions.

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It has been a system of amazing efficiency, its biggest past weakness being that it sometimes (as in the dot-com "bubble") creates too many companies of dubious viability.

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