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These fast, cheap networks are rewriting what used to be the first commandment of telecommunications: Thou shalt be huge. No phone company now has to invest billions in an expensive network. Instead it can just piggyback on other folks' networks, which have excess capacity to rent. Some upstarts are building networks of their own. Says Joseph Nacchio, CEO of Qwest, a telecom upstart based in Denver: "All the old reasons for scale are gone." Nacchio, who left the No. 3 slot at AT&T to run Qwest, compares the latest round of mergers to "an oligarchy buying a monopoly...
...suppose it's possible that Disney and the Dalmatian industry are cooperating in a piggyback promotion scheme designed to have both of their products discussed incessantly. Still, it is a little odd that people being interviewed with beautiful Dalmatians at their feet are so insistent that the average person is not up to coping with a Dalmatian...
...last pure Dole campaign events paid for with campaign funds. Dole is down to his last $200,000, and from here on out, he will go almost exclusively to state and local fund raisers so that his travel tab can be picked up by those groups. Dole will piggyback on the R.N.C. wherever he can and worry about spending violations when the campaign is over...
With next Tuesday's primary here still considered to be wide open, Alexander said he hopes he can piggyback on his recent successes in New Hampshire and Iowa to win in the Bay State...
...hard to make a decision to join anorganization that has nothing to go for it exceptskin color," Ferguson says. When it comes topolitics, Ferguson says the BSA tends to"piggyback" on national issues...