Sprint has been incurring heavy annual postpaid subscriber losses for a long time now and it was expected that carrying the iPhone would plug the leak.

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So, in the same way we hire workers to repair the furnace or plug the leak under the sink, we hire workers to fix the big national problems.

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And we will continue to make sure that all is being done to plug the leak and to deal with the environmental and economic consequences of what that pollution has caused.

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They're making plans now for -- even as they drill these two relief wells that optimistically will take quite some time -- how do we plug this leak either through using the robotics to effect the valve -- how are we dispersing this so that that oil never gets to the top and then through a natural system gets -- largely dissipates at the bottom?

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We also took a look at the BP's first massive oil containment dome, which the company plans to lower 5, 000 feet below the sea to plug up the leak.

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You can damage your engine if you're not careful to use the right oil filter and replace the oil-drain plug without stripping its threads, or forget a leak-stopping gasket.

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If that disappears and there is a competitor to defect to, then the result could be a leak of users you will never be able to plug.

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