Word: thursday
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...Moore is not alone in his worries. Pressed by a widespread revolt among moderate Democrats over the potential cost of health care reform, Senate Majority leader Harry Reid of Nevada announced on Thursday that he would not meet President Obama's target of passing legislation by early August. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi of California backed away from the idea of cancelling the August recess. Obama tried his best to stoke a sense of urgency with a publicity campaign that included a televised press conference Wednesday evening. But caution prevailed over the orator's usual magic...
...mayors and the like - you could imagine the FBI's relatively small office in Red Bank, N.J. frantically trying to arrange all the necessary surveillance to collect the evidence flooding in like the Navasink River at high tide. ("Hello, Radio Shack, I need 100 tape recorders. Yes, today.") In Thursday's big bust, more than 300 FBI agents were needed to make all the raids and arrests. They probably had to use temps...
...Thursday prominent Chinese director Feng Xiaogang told Xinhua that he backed the decisions by his fellow filmmakers. He accused festival officials of failing to promote the event as an artistic and cultural exchange. "The Melbourne film festival organizers have turned it into a political drama by inviting Rebiya Kadeer, a political liar," he said. Festival director Moore apologized for the absence of mainland films. "As a festival we continue to aim to support a plurality of views and are disappointed that this action has been taken," he said...
...Thursday, after many delays, it finally happened. Officials announced they had flipped the switch on a cable that gets its name from the Mauritius-based telecoms company that owns it, SEACOM. The 10,560-mile (17,000-km) line running from Europe and India down the East African coast can deliver 1.28 terabits of data per second, good enough for streaming video, Internet phone calls, gargantuan downloads and all the other services people have so long done without in these parts. (See photos of struggle and triumph in Africa...
...into account the fact that people will use the Internet over their mobile phones, which are seemingly ubiquitous even in the poorest African villages. Nor does it measure the myriad ways in which people will take advantage of speedy Internet access to create businesses or offer services that, before Thursday, would have been too costly to fund. "The demand for bandwidth can't be based on current prices and current demands," says Stork. "As soon as prices drop, many more applications come up and create more demand...