Technical-service stations are being developed where small farmers can buy simple equipment against future earnings.
The advent of self-service stations will make life even harder.
The plan is to eventually build six battery switch stations to service a 60-taxi fleet.
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The car's limited range would require plenty of fill-ups at compressed-air service stations, except those don't exist.
Gerald Ronson, 72, who brought self-service petrol stations to Britain in the 1960s, gets a CBE for services to charity.
Local television stations have begun running public-service advertisements urging people to wash their hands and to wear masks if they suffer flu-like symptoms.
Each day, approximately 30, 000 Metro-North customers use the stations where service has been shut down, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which operates Metro-North.
Petrol stations, for example, are installing self-service pumps and automatic car-washes.
Tesla designed the Model S to have a swappable battery and in the coming months will roll out a battery-switch option at its service stations, though the company declined to provide details on how it will work or the cost.
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Much like the way energy companies use 18-wheelers to deliver fuel to service stations, investment companies use ETFs to deliver their investment strategies to the marketplace.
Joel Myers, founder of what has become the world's best-known commercial weather service, AccuWeather, pioneered ready-for-air color weather graphics for TV stations and print-ready weather pages for newspapers.
As more customers sign up, service providers simply add more base-stations because all can use the same frequency without causing interference.
The company has attracted considerable attention in recent weeks for the re-launch of iHeartRadio, which provides links to Web versions of its broadcast stations, along with a Pandora-like user programmable radio service.
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Pearl then formed Mobile Content Venture (MCV) along with NBCU, FOX and Ion to commercialize a mobile television service that will use their stations' over-the-air spectrum to deliver TV programming directly to mobile and handheld devices.
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Plans for the first motorway service stations in Northern Ireland have been given the go-ahead.
In addition to 100 new High Street coffee shops, the company intends to increase the number of drive-through coffee outlets, typically found at motorway service stations, from nine to 200.
She said any future reorganisation of the service should be based on 24-hour centres, rather than stations which open only during daylight hours.
An East Midlands Trains spokesperson said a replacement bus service was operating between Crewe and Derby, calling at all stations including Stoke-on-Trent and Uttoxeter.
ECOtality will utilize the Sprint Command Center, across its nationwide system of residential, commercial, and public charging stations to control Machine-to-Machine (M2M) provisioning, billing, device, service management, and to run the Blink Network.
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O3b, by contrast, intends to offer bandwidth on a wholesale basis to internet-service providers, and transmission services to telecom operators, to link remote base stations to their core networks.
"Slacker is the most complete music service on earth, with 10 times the music of Pandora, expert- programmed stations Spotify can't touch, and personalization that satellite services only dream of, " said Jim Cady, CEO, Slacker.
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Others reported stations out of service, though in at least one instance in Manhattan, the Department of Transportation said a non-working station had been turned off because of a street festival.
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Helping support stocks was a report from the Commerce Department that showed retail and food-service sales rose in April from the previous month, offsetting a big drop in sales at gas stations.
"We were told we would have confirmation that these five towns would have 24-hour stations by the end of May, but we have heard nothing yet, " said a Welsh Ambulance Service NHS Trust spokesman.
In March, the service announced plans to reduce the number of ambulance stations from 65 to 28, creating nine "super-hubs", 19 smaller stations and 108 community points, changes which it said would improve response times.
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