They aim to build a business on bar code registration fees and a pay-per-swipe from retailers.

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Equipped with a bar-code reader to scan New York registration stickers and synchronized with an atomic clock in Colorado, the devices make it almost impossible for an agent to make the kinds of errors Bolofsky depends on for appeals.

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The beer giant, which is as it sounds, a venture between SABMiller and Molson Coors, will be required to pull its beers from every restaurant, bar and liquor store in the state because they did not renew their brand label registration before the shutdown.

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