Minnesota and Tampa Bay, last year's American League champs, have also enjoyed various successes with low payrolls in recent years, providing plenty of fodder for a players union eager to jump on evidence that having the cash bar set by the free-spending Yankees doesn't wreak havoc on the rest of the league.

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Coloured lights frame the cash-only bar and a miniature courtyard fits snugly between front and back room seating areas.

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In a game where these majors set the bar in terms of cash and quality-of-life compensation, and very young startups set the bar in terms of providing realistic shots at big windfalls, no other type of business has any chance of really competing for top talent, with any mix of cash and stock it can conjure up.

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Man, I miss the days when popularity was measured by something pure and simple like the amount of cash you got on your Bar Mitzvah.

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In an integration with bill provider InfoSend, people can pay their utility bills using PayNearMe. (About 10% of utility bills are paid in cash or money order, Shader says.) InfoSend will add bar codes on bill statements that people can take to 7-11 stores and use to pay in cash.

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Men, as the proprietors of the Otim bar can testify, may blow the spare cash on booze.

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Still, some predict that by 2009, the ability to swipe everything from a pair of pants to a bar of soap under a scanner will mean that shoppers will spend less time in a cash register line.

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