Influential men like Thomas Brattle, a Boston merchant, were pouring scorn on the proceedings.

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So they are disproportionately influenced by the ticket price, says Kevin Neels of Brattle, a consultancy.

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Without dynamic pricing, the payback for smart meter investments could be as low as 14 billion euros, the Brattle report concludes.

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In 1870, Mary Walker used her savings from years of sewing and caregiving to purchase a home near Harvard on Brattle Street.

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An October report from the consulting company Brattle Group estimates that in Europe, it would cost 51 billion euros to wire the continent with smart meters.

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Philip Verleger, an energy economist with the Brattle Group, a consultancy, observes that successful central banks are secretive about when they will intervene in the foreign exchanges.

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Thou need na start awa sae hasty, Wi bickering brattle!

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"The pilot showed conclusively what could be done, " says Ahmad Faruqui, a consultant with the Brattle Group in San Francisco, who advises utilities on the economics of smart grid technology.

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Today, "Casablanca" speaks to audiences very differently from how it did in 1942 or even when it was part of the Bogart revival that began in the late 1950s at the Brattle Theater in Cambridge.

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This could cut power demand by 10-15% during peak hours, estimates Ahmad Faruqui of the Brattle Group, a consultancy more than twice the reduction likely to be achieved by just giving customers real-time information about their usage.

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