Once waters recede, crews sometimes have to use hair dryers to get water out of signal equipment and other circuits that are essential to the transit system, Mr. Foley said.

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AMD's official rationale: By adding Markham, Ontario-based ATI's (nasdaq: ATYT - news - people ) graphics chips and chipsets--the circuits at the core of a computer system--to its arsenal, the company is better positioned to compete with Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ).

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Trial courts in the Fifth, Second and Ninth Circuits have rejected such suits as attempts to use the court system to achieve regulatory goals better handled by the legislature.

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