Liberia was an important American Cold War ally, the host of C.I.A. communications facilities and one of the Navy's Omega navigation stations, and Doe was an avowed anti-Communist, so the human-rights abuses of his regime were overlooked.
Those share gains had been predicated on the notion that Motorola was remaking itself for the "wired world" and benefiting from enormous demand for microchips, digital telephones and a host of other communications devices, like cable modems.
Such a usage profile was not specifically taken into account while initially designing the architecture of the network: as a matter of fact, the Internet was instead conceived around the concept of host-to-host communications between two remote machines.
Neither supported host-to-host communications; in the 1970s this was still the province of the research networks, and it would remain so for many years.
The AFC was at pains to stress last night that the Togolese team did not follow its guidelines on travelling to host cities. Suleimanu Habuba, director of communications for the AFC, said: "What the regulations state clearly is that all the teams fly to Luanda, or into their host city.
The MC of the wedding is basically the host and communications person of the event.
"We want people to think of the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show as a celebration of the dogs in our lives," said David Frei, the club's director of communications and the host of the show for over two decades.
In the seat anchored in Syracuse, the Democratic candidate is David J. Valesky, who is vice president of communications and a program host for a public television station.
In re-examining the emergency response on that chaotic day, Mr. Von Essen talked about a host of shortcomings, including breakdowns in communications and in the way firefighters responded to the disaster.
Typically, NFC is associated with mobile payments, but don't forget that it can also be used for a host of other short-distance data communications.
