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When it does, the already hot competition among service providers is sure to intensify as each carrier scrambles to retain its customers and poach others. Yankee Group analyst Roger Entner estimates that once subscribers can keep their phone number, 12 million to 15 million more than usual will defect every year, costing the industry between $2 billion and $3 billion annually. (That doesn't include the estimated $1 billion the industry will have to spend to upgrade its networks to accommodate the change, but consumers will be picking up that tab; some providers are already collecting a small surcharge.) Even...
With no draft to poach their classmates, and few body bags crossing the ocean, anti-war protestors had little to rally behind, forcing them to mediate many competing views...
...hospital! Straight-arrow Jackson Rhames (Jason George) and his streetwise brother Grady (Sticky Fingaz) have a dream job--running the independent record label Sweetback--but they also have a few problems. Their top act, an Eminem-like white rapper, is a thug, and his last record tanked. If they poach a rival label's star, it could start a literal blood feud. Oh, and neither they nor anybody else in the record business knows how to make money anymore. The series is called Platinum, but for these mini-moguls, the business is looking more like...
...dollar bill to our (hopefully) upcoming college diplomas. Accuracy isn’t as strong as from the baseline, but can still be deadly. Still, the net isn’t Summers’ strongest area, and it’s a rare instance when he will aggressively poach a shot heading into the opposite court...
...they would need X rays of DNA, but they would have to look outside Cambridge. The Cavendish's crystallographers were interested in proteins; DNA was the province of King's College, London; and while actively competing with Americans was fine, it just wouldn't do to poach--openly, at least--on fellow Brits...