Mark Cooper
Mark Cooper
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We wish this merger would not happen, but the simple fact is a whole bunch of them should not happen. In the end the consumers end up with fewer and fewer competitors.
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the price for its operating system should have come down 3 percent or in the worst case stayed flat.
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While I understand that everyone would love to punish the oil companies, I want to solve the problem.
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This reminds us that the fight over Net neutrality is even more important. AT&T has already made it clear that they intend to engage in discrimination and pick and choose who has access to the Internet's fast lane.
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We thought that these guys were going to compete with each other, but it's apparent that they would rather just merge. If the average consumer is lucky, he or she has two choices now: the phone company or the cable company. And the average consumer knows that two choices is not enough.
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As it becomes the main avenue of commerce and communications, people not connected to the Internet could become a new category of the disenfranchised,
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We've been a fast-starting team for most of the year. It was a comfortable feeling to get out to a big lead. The middle two quarters it seemed like our advantage was between 10 and 13 points, which was close enough, but not far enough ahead.
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What's they've done is reconstitute Ma Bell on a regional basis.
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Broadband was one of the few remaining opportunities for competition in telephone service. Now that door has been closed. If Justice now approves this merger, it slams yet another door.
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We conceded two goals from set-pieces because people were not doing their jobs. We are down at the bottom and have to get on with it.
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I have got to know Paul over the past year or two from trying to pinch his players on loan.
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Nelson is an all-conference player, and when he gets going it's difficult to guard him. He beat us in a variety of ways.
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One's true character shows through when you're faced with adversity, and our kids were force fed some this week, but responded like champions tonight. If we want to make a run at the NCIC, we know we've got to run the table because you can't expect Rock Falls to lose more than one game, so tonight we took that first step.
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One wonders whether the government showed up with a court order or an opinion letter from the attorney general. The Bells should at the very least inquire about the law that governs their situation. I hope a conversation ensued after the government made the request.