Outside of Manhattan, phone service largely returned to normal.
Official corruption and nepotism are rife, resources scarce, the civil service largely incompetent.
With cellphone service largely knocked out, many residents are relying on the small number of surviving pay phones.
Ground transportation to and from the three airports was scarce, with mass transit service largely suspended and many roads impassable.
The MTV service largely matches the price and features of other music services, including Napster and RealNetworks.
Lauren Reinhold, a stay-at-home mother in Lawrence, Kan., canceled her cable service largely to reduce the amount of advertising her children saw.
The energy crisis has created enormous risks for Mr. Davis, a politician who has built his long career in public service largely on risk-aversion.
But the company continues to offer limited service, largely because the federal government, an early investor, is still trying to wean itself away from the global network.
Navitime, a pioneer in online map navigation here, claims to provide a "total navigation" service on every available transportation medium, and the service largely lives up to its name.
They are different, too, from celebrity stylists, who tend to be as limelight-seeking as the stars; private shoppers work behind the scenes, drumming up business by word of mouth and performing a service largely cloaked in secrecy.
But he still pays AOL for its dial-up service, largely because the desktop e-mail software packaged with it makes it easier to include maps, photographs and notes in the body of messages, rather than as attachments.
