Xerox is experimenting with its own conductive inks for making electronic paper and circuitry for flat screen monitors and billboards.

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Yet it is not certain that public journalism commands the public's interest: the Dayton paper's circulation is flat.

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That office paper usage will continue to be flat or slightly decline, with larger forces like the economy having more impact than mobile.

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It is such a quiet, pretty paper, and it gives some relief to the flat unobtrusiveness of cream walls while remaining their friend.

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Savings and loan institutions, recent victims of the flat yield curve with huge redemptions in outstanding fixed-mortgage paper, will be able to operate at wider spreads.

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"I am working flat out for the people I represent, " he told the paper, pointing out that he spent Monday to Thursday in London and Friday and Saturday in the North East on ministerial and constituency business, before returning to London on Sunday.

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Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's tax troubles--a result, his handlers had said, of tax code complexity--underscore the need to drastically simplify that code with a flat tax, where a return can be filed on a single sheet of paper or even a postcard.

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Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's tax troubles--a result, his handlers had said, of tax code complexity--underscore the need to drastically simplify that code with a flat tax, where you could file your return on a single sheet of paper or even a postcard.

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In Britain, die-hard opponents of the flat tax, such as Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown, were caught censoring portions of an internal Treasury paper on the subject that was obtained under the recently effective Freedom of Information Act.

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