Word: access
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...when Sununu was being his usual unpleasant self. Says Bush now: "Andy Card is an experienced, low-keyed person who understands the definition of chief of staff is not junior President, but is the chief of a staff of very high-powered people whose job is to never deny access but to enhance access to me, and if there is a tie to be broken, he can break it in a good thoughtful...
...CELERA PRESIDENT: J. Craig Venter FOUNDED: May 1998 EMPLOYEES: 741 WHAT IT DOES: Maps genomes and sells access to its rapidly growing databases...
...world of the near future, all manner of content--magazines, movies, music, books, shopping--will be pouring into your home through your cable television line. The cable is now known as broadband because, even though it looks the same, technology has made it fatter and faster. When broadband access fuses the new and old economies with a bang, consumers will have a simple concern: If the broadband world is ruled by one company, will we have to pay more? Will we have a choice of what we watch? And if we don't stop them now, will we be able...
Nobody knows. And that put the FTC in the ungainly position of regulating the future. The FTC's solution was to ensure that the pipes, just like federal highways, were open to everyone, making "open access" to the two companies' cable and Internet services the price of approval. Case and Levin agreed to allow at least three other Internet service providers access to Time Warner cable lines and decreed that AOL would continue to invest in slower, phone-based DSL service...
From the start, Case and Levin not unreasonably insisted that open access was integral to their companies' success. Why would Time Warner, which controls 20% of the nation's cable subscribers, close off competitors' access to its cable resources and risk its own access to the other 80% of the market? But after the Disney debacle, that sort of logic carried no weight...