The blogosphere has done incredible things in educating the base, educating a young net savvy generation, funding political causes and holding cable news personalities like Lou Dobbs accountable.
Plant workers discovered a crack about eight inches wide in the small maintenance pit, which lies between the No. 2 Reactor and the sea and holds cables used to power seawater pumps, Japan's nuclear regulator said.
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The Arris Group, a maker of telecommunications equipment, plans to buy Cadant Inc., a closely held cable modem equipment maker, for about $45.7 million in stock.
Robert Ryan, a distressed-debt analyst at Bank of America Securities, said the numbers were in line with the performance of other publicly held cable companies.
Family members also operated privately held cable companies that they financed with loans obtained through the public company -- a relationship that, in the differing views of defense lawyers and prosecutors, was either symbiotic or parasitic.
The family that controls Cox Communications announced plans last week to take the publicly held cable company private and, as is the way of corporate America and Wall Street, now lots of others are toying with the same concept.
Later built Continental Cablevision into nation's largest privately held cable concern.
Comcast can swap 17% of its investment for stock in a Time Warner another subsidiary that holds cable systems and cash.
