Word: optically
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...terms of capabilities, the regime has its up and downs. This officer mentioned one clever thing that Saddam had done to harden his communications system. "He buried fiber optic cables, which made it much more difficult for us to disrupt the system. But now we're getting to those," he said...
...Best Buy and PNC last year. "I'd be surprised if he hasn't got more exposure to junk bonds," says Russo. "And what this tells us is, now is a good time to buy distressed assets." That message also seems clear in Buffett's recent investments in fiber-optic company Level 3 and energy firm Williams Cos., both strapped financially. These are public companies, but Buffett did not buy their common stocks. He holds non--publicly traded securities in each--convertible bonds in Level 3 and convertible preferred stock in Williams. Buffett also cherry-picked a prize gas pipeline...
...northern and southern regions from which Iraqi planes are banned. In the past, when Iraqi forces fired on allied planes, the reply came in attacks on guns and missile batteries. That has changed. Now the allied planes are attacking command-and-control centers, communications nodes and the fiber-optic network that links Iraq's air-defense system. "We're responding differently," says a Pentagon official, "hitting multiple targets when we're fired upon--and they're tending to be more important targets...
...answer depends mostly on the situation in your local TV market. Prices and channel packages vary wildly. Cable companies are in the midst of multibillion-dollar fiber-optic upgrades, which means that some places have better service than others. Meanwhile DISH and DirecTV say that unless they merge, they can't offer local channels--NBC, ABC, CBS, the WB and Fox affiliates, for example--to every American...
...software and IT companies. The government promises low taxes, duty-free imports of IT equipment and automatic residency for anyone who invests more than $500,000 in the industry. It is also passing a raft of laws to protect and regulate the sector. And a recently completed undersea fiber-optic cable from Portugal along the west coast of Africa to India and Malaysia via Mauritius will increase the country's bandwidth by a factor of 4,000. Says Prime Minister Anerood Jugnauth: "Our physical isolation will no longer hold us back...