The Easycard is currently in talks with smart-cards providers in other Asian countries, including Octopus in Hong Kong, Ez-link in Singapore and T-Money in South Korea.
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An accountant by trade, Stevens had just pledged that he wouldn't touch money--be it cash, credit, check or wampum--for a whole year.
Second, preventative medicine gives people better lives and prevents illnesses, but it doesn't save money--because patients who would never have been treated before will still opt to pop pills or get screenings.
If we find we are spending big money - and it is big money - and people don't use it, businesses are going to start asking, 'Why are we doing this kind of thing?
"I think the public should demand that the government generally hold its contractors accountable, and remind the government this is our money -- we don't want our money spent this way, " Brian said.
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In New York, traffic-enforcement cameras aren't just about money but about the anti-car agenda of Mayor Mike Bloomberg.
That's my entire orientation, and how do I do that in a way that doesn't waste taxpayer money -- because, as I said, people in other industries would love help, as well, and I've got to be fair to people who aren't in the auto industry.
Brokers, who like CNL-style REITs for the fabulous 7% fees a sale generates, argue that private REITs won't lose you money--an assertion that assumes these things will stay in business and assumes that if you get in line at the exit door you will eventually be permitted to leave.
The fundamental concept of limited liability--you can't lose more money than the amount you invested in an entity--is being eroded.
The problem, says Richard Blakeway, the mayor's housing adviser, isn't money but co-ordination, among boroughs and health and prison services too.
Won't that require pump-priming money while the system is changed?
Like the artist-turned-Internet-entrepreneur who slunk in when he couldn't drum up additional funding for his money-eating Web outfit.
They don't want the government to take too much of their hard-earned money for things they don't want.
Microsoft's Xbox console has made life difficult for Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people ), but the money-losing business can't match Apple's iPod profit spigot.
And they don't want - even the employees don't know exactly where the money comes from and what contract is being charged to.
Leps have so much ground to cover - tourism, hi-tech manufacturing, broadband, accessing EU money - but they haven't got the resources to do it.
So I think when you couple the two -- the frustration and the anxiety and the anger about personal situations, unable to get loans, while we watch bankers get bonuses, while we watch -- while the money that was loaned isn't paid back in full -- absolutely they're -- I think that makes them mad.
"We don't make money on the bid-ask spread, " insists Kyle Vann, Entergy-Koch's chief executive.
He wanted to help charity and didn't need the bonus money now--but thought he might in retirement.
Say you don't have the money or choice -- KFC is making money in the poorest communities.
And will enough consumers save enough money switching to T-Mobile to justify the higher upfront price of phones?
Whereas it can indeed, risk free, lend out money at the T-Bill rate.
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"We don't make money on the bid-ask spread, " says Kyle Vann, Entergy-Koch's CEO.
The settlement allows publishers to negotiate limits on how much retailers can discount, ensuring retailers can't lose money overall on e-book sales.
And I think all you need to do is look at the news today at their ability to excite the base and the grassroots to contribute in the very same way that folks did in our election, and that was not -- they don't take money from PACs and lobbyists.
"He wants to be back in F1 in 2011 but with all the money he has earned he doesn't want to go in a medium-type team for money, " Robertson added.
Retired Baby-Boomers have plenty of ways to make money that don't involve greeting people at Wal-Mart.
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