The lobbying against the latest measure by the cable companies intensified this month after senior commission officials said that the agency was planning to conclude as part of its annual report on the state of the video services market that it has broad new regulatory authority over the cable industry under the so-called 70/70 rule of the Cable Communications Act of 1984.
The work is planned to be concluded in two and a half years, starting in April 2013 and ending September 2015.
In his report, Dr. Richardson noted that 18 zoos around the world had closed or were planning to close their elephant exhibits after concluding that the animals could not be properly cared for in captivity.
It did lead American officials to conclude that Qaeda cells were planning to go after "soft" targets "very soon," one official said.
By late May and early June, counterespionage officials grew concerned that several of the agents were planning to leave the country this summer and concluded that they would have to arrest them.
Jeremy Paxman: This is a curious thing, because when we talked at the time of the last election, you said that you were not going to make any commitments about national insurance contributions, I said, "Wouldn't any reasonable person conclude that you were planning to raise national insurance?" and you said "No, they should not do that".
When the control board concluded that the city was planning to spend more than it took in, the mayor was ordered to make such additional cuts as he determined appropriate in order to bring the budget into balance.
He explained that, while someone like Karofsky could turn to drugs or alcohol or commit suicide, Glee is "by nature optimistic", so he plans to conclude the storyline positively.
Conflicting accounts regarding the last song played aboard the Titanic have been finessed by Mr. Levinson, who plans to conclude the program by mingling "Songe d'Automne," a surging waltz of the day, with "Nearer My God to Thee," the hymn that it partly echoes.
