Mr. Young asked Donna Kush, assistant vice president for corporate communications, to brief the board last October, just before the railroad operator launched its first national advertising campaign in nearly a decade.

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Time Warner -- the parent company of CNN -- filed a friend of the court brief supporting the networks fined by the communications commission.

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Imposing inconsistent local regulations on providers of broadband technology "could undermine the development of intermodel competition, " between cable operators, telephone companies, providers of wireless telecommunications services, and satellite communications firms, the FCC brief says.

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