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...global leader, but it failed to repeat that with cable phone and wireless broadband. Nortel continues to make money on CDMA networks, a wireless protocol still used by many providers worldwide. But in 2007 it sold its GSM division, the 3G standard for the most advanced mobile communication, to rival Alcatel-Lucent...
...also got a few receptions at wideout—eight, to be exact, for 131 yards.Fellow Bear Paul Raymond just got signed as a wide receiver for the Jets in January, so if Pizzotti gets any snaps, he can look for his former rival downfield.Prinecton’s Jonathan Drekker is listed on the Steelers active roster, but he doesn’t yet have a place in their depth chart, while across the country, fellow Tiger Zak Keasey is playing backup to the 49ers Moran Norris at fullback. Dennis Norman, also a Princeton grad, is a backup center...
Barack Obama may be the first President to actually rival Roosevelt in terms of the sheer number of changes. Only 6% into his 1,461-day term, Obama has already signed a $700 billion stimulus bill, tried to bail out Detroit, lifted a ban on stem-cell research, planned a withdrawal from Iraq, reached out to Cuba and authorized the release of Bush-era torture memos. Oh, and he got a dog. Roosevelt didn't adopt his beloved Fala until the end of his second term...
...After narrowly losing Philadelphia's mayoral election 1967 to a Pittsburgh millionaire, Specter continued to work as Philadelphia's District Attorney for eight years, overseeing 250,000 cases. In 1969, he hired two rival gang leaders as consultants to address the city's rising violence and the following year charged two white policemen with aggravated assault and battery in the shooting death of a black man - moves that won both derision and praise...
...were quick to celebrate Republican Senator Arlen Specter's shocking announcement that he was switching parties. But in his home state of Pennsylvania, Specter's news received a much more measured reception from his new party colleagues. Perhaps that isn't all that surprising considering that Specter, a longtime rival, had in one fell swoop effectively won the Democratic nomination for next year's Senate race...