That task grew more difficult in May, when news broke that federal prosecutors were looking into allegations that MCI, since 1994 and be-fore merging into WorldCom, had be-gun illegally disguising long-distance calls as local ones to avoid paying the Bells millions of dollars in access fees--and continues to do so.
We drove past my old high school: there were bars on the windows where there hadn't been before I went to prison, armed uniformed guards out front where be-fore there'd been old-lady hall monitors with whistles, and I imagined that the bars and the guards were there to protect the students from me and not some teenage crazy in a trench coat stuffed with home-made ordnance.
VoiceStream will offer messaging services under the AIM brand, while in Hong Kong it is ICQ which will be to the fore.
While tax issues in the campaign may not be at the fore yet, Steffen believes they will crystallize if no action is taken by a lame duck Congress to extend the Bush tax cuts in some form.
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Changes in house prices may also be more to the fore in people's minds.
Graffiti pictures by American star Jean-Michel Basquiat will be well to the fore, with their political undertones and emotional support of the black underdog.
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One key to future voting patterns fore Republicans will be to fashion cooperative solutions on this issue.
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The characters brought to the fore with the reboot will be interacting in ways they never have before in the DC universe, said DC Editor-in-Chief Bob Harras.
Cisco may have driven Alantec into the arms of yet another fast-growing networking company, Fore Systems--though Fore itself is now rumoured to be a takeover candidate.
As cloud has achieved mainstream level adoption, traditional business and operational concerns have moved to the fore and must at some point be addressed lest adoption begin to stagnate or customers become disillusioned with the technology.
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Mr Clinton has said that 1997 will be the year Latin American issues come to the fore.
That, and the world's realisation that without addressing deforestation, mitigating climate change will be exceedingly difficult, has brought forests to the fore.
While it could be said that more news coverage brings issues to the fore, my concern is that just the opposite is happening.
The big question, of course, brought to the fore by Meredith Whitney and Nouriel Roubini recently is will we be facing widespread municipal bankruptcies rendering the muni-market a mine field of investor disasters?
With pharmaceuticals coming back to the fore and tech taking a secondary role, another conclusion is that tech stocks might be overbought, and so one must tread with caution and avoid overexposure.
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All of this suggests that Big Data will not only be a revolution in data management and search, but that it will also likely bring to the fore a whole new generation of hot companies specializing in building and selling new tools for mining vast amounts of low-quality data for the rare nuggets.
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