Word: papered
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Regardless of who ultimately wins, the auction has already prompted a serious restructuring of the way wireless carriers offer services to their customers. In August, the FCC backed Google's crusade (spawned by a paper written by Tim Wu for the New America Foundation calling for open networks) and mandated that the auction's largest available spectrum, the C block, be an open network if the bid reached at least $4.6 billion. (Some analysts predict Google will bid just enough to trigger the open-network provision, and no more.) That would mean customers could use any wireless device, handset...
...work of the European Union is often seen as technical, dull and remote: It's hard to gin up much general interest in, say, another green paper on financial regulation, however incisive it may be. But today's announcement in Brussels was a blockbuster: a sweeping package of measures to combat climate change that sets a global standard and means major changes for how Europe gets its energy...
...team boss of Newcastle United, the English Premier League football club whose St. James' Park stadium stands atop this city, Kevin Keegan is moonlighting as Newcastle's spiritual leader. Hardworking and proud of their roots, his congregation are "Geordie first and English second," says Brian Aitken, editor of local paper The Journal. And as a blend of "the three F's," he says - that's fun, family and football - for most of those Geordies "football would come first...
...idea to take Israel electric was born in a white paper that Agassi, an Israeli native who now lives in the United States, wrote as part of the World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders forum. Peres was impressed and encouraged Agassi to pursue the project as a stand-alone business, helping to introduce the software-industry executive to auto executives, including Carlos Ghosn, CEO of Renault-Nissan. The Japanese-French auto alliance has separately said that it will manufacture a hybrid by 2010 and an all-electric...
...placed third in Iowa, and now only leads Obama by 3 percentage points in the same poll. The former first lady and her husband, Bill Clinton, have spent much of the week campaigning in Nevada and have the backing of most Nevada Hispanic leaders, including the largest Spanish language paper, as well as much of the state's Democratic establishment, including 27 elected officials. She also has the backing of eight national unions, six of which have locals in Nevada."We've built a strong grass roots organization and we feel confident people will show up,"said Clark County Commissioner...