Software targets finicky audience CyberPounce, a feline video game, caters to cats' love of swiping at things. Six months ago, I got my first client. After working for two months, out of the blue, he decided not to pay me. Because we had just moved into our first house and had bills to pay, I drifted away from my business for a while and got a job.
Higher prices spur competition at gas pumps Grocers add their own pumps to undercut stations.
La. - People are lined up for po'boys and Cajun sausage at the Gator Stop Deli, but business is slow at the Chevron gas pumps outside and at the Shell outlet across the street. Low-tax gas on Indian lands upsets New Mexico Gas stations on tribal lands are making motorists happy, but giving state officials headaches. It's mid-afternoon on a Friday, and the line of cars, trucks and sport utility vehicles stretches from the shiny new gas pumps out to the road. The Bush administration is reviewing rules designed to fight money laundering, saying they may be burdensome for U.S. banks without achieving their goal. Democratic lawmakers, meanwhile, are pushing legislation to give the government new authority over U.S. banks that do business with foreign banks and customers.