Health insurers fear that if the mandate is struck down but the rest of the law survives, they would be forced to accept millions more sick customers without enough new healthy customers to balance out the risk pool.
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Without paying customers or competition to harry them, public-sector workforces are often producer-oriented and conservative.
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The technology could also allow them to read power and water meters without entering customers' premises.
Samsung could have taken advantage of the energy saved on the display and at the same time accommodated a more powerful battery, to add heft, without upsetting customers.
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But without individual customers willing to sign up, and pay up, for its construction, buying more Russian gas through existing pipelines will seem an easier and cheaper option.
He suspects some of the listings were submitted by vendors who ran Linpack (the standard code used to measure supercomputing performance) benchmark before delivering the systems to their customers and then submitted those systems for the list without telling their customers.
For over half a century, this was a great deal for TV companies as they could reach large pools of customers without having to worry about building out infrastructure to get programming to those customers.
The long and rancorous negotiations left Cablevision customers without most Yankees games last year.
Utilities reported about 21, 000 customers without power in west and north Georgia and metropolitan Atlanta.
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By 1600 today they hope to have restored 50% of connections, leaving 50, 000 Broadband customers without connectivity.
Put simply, you can continue to serve more customers without compromising on speed or having to re-architect.
Last year the systems at RBS in the UK failed, leaving customers without access to their funds.
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Aging assets usually requires higher spending levels on replacements, but without adding new customers to absorb those added costs.
Even small copper parts stolen from outside homes can leave customers without phones.
Rhode Island may have seen the worst outages relative to its size, with more than 180, 000 customers without power.
But it added that customers without the relevant insurance who paid in cash are unlikely to be eligible for refunds.
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Con Edison's Mike Clendenin said there were just 317 customers without power in the city on Saturday morning, mostly in Brooklyn.
Three things: loyalty, an easy way to reward customers without simply giving away free money, and flexibility on their balance sheets.
That is, that Sprint will be able to gouge more profits out of its customers without the deal than with it.
Wesson agrees that RRP does not prevent slamming, but he says registrars will have little economic incentive to switch customers without authorization.
Without that, customers of the big carriers get stuck holding the bill.
Elsewhere, there have been reports of water problems in Rhiw, Gwynedd, with customers without water or low pressure in the Llyn Peninsula (LL53).
Of course, this is not the only example of how snooping on customers without their knowledge can lead to a bad news day.
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In addition, in order to avoid customer complaints, in May 2005, Collins agreed to pay certain fees for two customers without alerting Ameriprise.
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But now, forward to 2007, Bank of America is offering credit cards to customers without Social Security numbers, many of whom are undocumented immigrants.
"By 800 this morning we had restored 30% of that service leaving 7% of our total Broadband customers without connectivity, " said an Orange spokesperson.
Manhattan and Westchester county were particularly hard hit, the utility said, with more than 150, 000 customers without power in Manhattan as of 1 AM.
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Our Founders would be astonished to find that massive, de facto tax increases can be enacted on an industry and its customers without legislative approval.
The outage left 16 million customers without access to their accounts.
New York City, where 11 inches of snow fell in Central Park, saw just a few hundred customers without power, a Con Edison spokesman said.
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