Last year Lexmark and Kodak jointly introduced a stand-alone printer; this year, they quietly discontinued it.
"One of the problems we observed in the recent crisis is that nobody knew who had what," said Senator Jack Reed, a Rhode Island Democrat who last month introduced a stand-alone bill to establish a National Institute of Finance.
Livio, makers of the Pandora radio, have introduced a stand-alone, internet radio module, with NPR-exclusive capability.
In the House of Representatives, last Friday Representative Daniel Lipinski (D IL) introduced a stand-alone bill (H.R. 5583) that would also create a Research Policy Board.
In early 2000 Haier introduced a stand-alone model specifically designed for the U.S., and sales sparked; last fall Sanyo launched its own version, and early this year General Electric introduced a model priced to compete with Haier.
cited a local business this week when he introduced a stand-alone drug testing proposal.
While Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, a Connecticut independent, and Senator Susan Collins of Maine, the only Republican to vote in favor of the bill, said they would introduce a stand-alone measure to repeal the "don't ask.
Its success comes as Nickelodeon is struggling in the ratings and bracing for a challenge from its archrival, the Walt Disney Company, which is introducing a stand-alone channel for preschool children called Disney Junior.
Days later, Amazon completed a deal to buy episodes of Viacom-owned programs, including "Jersey Shore" and "SpongeBob SquarePants," as it prepares to introduce a stand-alone streaming service that also will compete with Netflix.
Jim McDermott, D-Wash., Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., and other sympathetic legislators have also told Crist that this year they have too much on their plate, and that it would be politically wiser to introduce a stand-alone Mexico-Medicare bill next year, separate from the complex health care reform package currently working its way through Capitol Hill.
