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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

cable originally wire cordage of great strength or heavy metal chain used for hauling, towing, supporting the roadway of a suspension bridge, or securing a large ship to its anchor or mooring. Today a cable often refers to a line used for the transmission of electrical signals. One type of electric cable consists of a core protected by twisted wire strands and suitably insulated, especially when it is used to cross oceans undersea; a message transmitted by cable is known as a cablegram or cable. France and England were first successfully connected by submarine telegraphic cable in 1845. The... Read more

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The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea cable stoppers, usually known as slips, are used to hold the cable when a ship lies to an anchor, either as a preventer, or stand-by, when the cable is held by the brake of the cable-holder , or to hold the cable temporarily so... Read more

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The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea cable. 1. Basically any very large hemp or wire rope, but normally...all such cables were of hemp, and an early definition of a cable, c .1740, was a hemp rope of 20 inches (50.8 cm) in circumference...circumference. By 1780 the general rule for the size of an anchor cable was half an inch (1.27 cm) for ... Read more

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	Cable TV: preserving a marketplace. (excerpts from speech to Broadcast/Cable Interface Conference) (column) Magazine article from: Multichannel News; 6/18/1990; ; 700+ words ; Cable TV: Preserving a Marketplace BEFORE we hasten to apply draconian remedies to the cable industry, we should inquire not only, How real are the problems...likely to persist if government does not intervene? All of cable's problems, real or imagined, should be viewed against the... Read more
	Apartment owners' rights and cable television. (Legal Issues) Magazine article from: Journal of Property Management; 5/1/1993; ; 700+ words ; Cable television has become a standard part of the homes and daily lives of most Americans...its prevalence, many apartment complexes across the country are not yet wired for cable. These potential markets have not gone unnoticed by both the local franchise cable companies and the so-called satellite ... Read more
	Cable expects favorable data order.(FCC)(Brief Article) Magazine article from: Multichannel News; 1/14/2002; ; 700+ words ; Cable lobbyists are all but certain that the Federal Communications...industry a victory over proponents of mandatory access to cable's high-speed Internet platform. But the win could lead to...skirmishes with local regulators. Over the past few years, the cable industry has vigorously campaigned against ... Read more
	Cable AdNet makes push in Puerto Rico. Magazine article from: Multichannel News; 5/31/1993; ; 700+ words ; Cable AdNet, which handles local ad sales for several cable systems in Puerto Rico, has mounted an effort to aggressively...turnkey operator and rep firm, which is trying to interconnect cable systems throughout Puerto Rico, recently conducted several... Read more
	Cable Should Take a Fresh Look at Access. Magazine article from: Multichannel News; 10/18/1999; ; 700+ words ; Cable operators, America Online Inc. and other Internet-service providers seeking direct access to cable-modem users are engaged in an increasingly vigorous debate. The cable industry has put forward solid arguments as to why such access should not be imposed... Read more
	Cable Idea Exchange helps cable-broadcast 'marriage.' (broadcast station-cable system relations) Magazine article from: Multichannel News; 9/24/1990; ; 700+ words ; Cable Idea Exchange Helps Cable-Broadcast `Marriage' When Jane Considine was appointed cable liaison, her boss asked her to describe her job in two words. Considine replied: Marriage counselor. Like it or not, cable and broadcast are married, Considine... Read more
	Taking Care of BUSINESS.(marketing cable-modem Internet access) Magazine article from: Multichannel News; 7/19/1999; ; 700+ words ; Cable operators explore opportunities for high-speed data, telephony...to market these services -- it's how hard to market them. Cable-modem access, in particular, presents operators with the...sales resources. The business market is foreign territory for cable companies, operators wisely noted, and demand ... Read more
	Cable cowboy comes home to the range. (cable TV direct sales representatives) Magazine article from: American Salesman; 11/1/1990; ; 700+ words ; Cable Cowboy Comes Home To The Range Although there are no reliable figures available, there are probably 20,000 + Cable TV direct sales reps now working in this country. They have...which to choose to work. Amongst the multitude of direct Cable salespeople are beings known as Cable Cowboys. ... Read more
	Cable wants bigger bite of broadcasting's pie: having missed out in '02, the industry plans an aggressive upfront this year. (TV Buyer). Magazine article from: Broadcasting & Cable; 2/10/2003; ; 700+ words ; Cable networks hate reruns--not necessarily on their schedules...of their underwhelming experience a year ago. Working in cable's favor this year are a surprisingly strong scatter market and a wave of new hits strengthening a wider range of cable channels. Working against it are sharper competition among... Read more
	CABLE RATES JUST KEEP GOING UP PRICES INCREASE 8% IN 1 YEAR, FCC FINDS; MCCAIN RAPS BOOST Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News; 7/9/2003; ; 700+ words ; Cable-TV industry prices nationwide jumped more than five times faster than consumer prices in the year ended in July 2002, a government report showed, as cable prices continued to far outpace inflation. Cable-TV operators linked the 8.2 percent annual increase to higher costs for programs and employees... Read more

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