It is, perhaps, a small way of acknowledging that the BBC, once the great distributor of material (you pressed the first button on the television and out poured BBC1, as if through a well-plumbed pipe) is now part of a world in which material is dragged hither and thither by the riptides, eddies and flows of the internet.
The Supreme Court under Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has generally been sympathetic to free speech claims, ruling in favor of protesters at military funerals, the makers of violent video games and the distributors of materials showing cruelty to animals.
The studies acknowledge that the Roberts court has ruled for free speech rights in a handful of cases that have captured the public imagination, including ones protecting funeral protesters, the makers of violent video games and the distributors of materials showing the torture of animals.
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain-Pont-à-Mousson, leading French manufacturer and distributor of construction materials, packaging, and containers.
Anderson, a privately held distributor of building materials and supplies to professional builders in Utah and Idaho, earned $18.2 million on sales of $390 million in 1999.
CRH, a maker and distributor of building materials, agreed to buy the Pavestone Group for $540 million to expand in concrete landscaping products.
THERMO ELECTRON CORP., Waltham, Mass., the largest maker of measurement instruments for medical laboratories, said it would buy the radiation-monitoring products unit of Cie de Saint-Gobain, France, Europe's largest distributor of building materials, for $30 million.
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain, Europe's biggest distributor of building materials, confirmed its bid of £3.68 billion ($6.62 billion) for BPB of Britain, the world's leading supplier of gypsum used to make plaster for walls and ceilings.
Wolseley, a leading distributor of plumbing materials, supplants Marconi, whose ambition was to provide the plumbing of the Internet.In this section When the economy held its breath Recovery redefined Falling stars Rudderless The biggest bill of all Uncharted waters Fingered?
Follett, a distributor of educational materials, has announced that it has developed an eBook reader for education that is aimed at classrooms and libraries.
