Among the high-profile deals it has given the green light within the past year: the union of XM Satellite Radio and Sirius, and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange 's purchase of the Chicago Board of Trade.

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In exchange, the Iraqi Kurds are squeezing the PKK. An Iraqi Kurdish satellite-television channel, Kurd Stat, even carries Turkish-language news broadcasts.

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Its satellite office in Hong Kong, Scient has taken on such clients as the steel exchange IsteelAsia and the Hong Kong wireless firm Sunday.

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Many rural communities are several miles from a telephone exchange - too far for high-speed broadband to work - while satellite connection for high-speed access is very expensive and carries the risk of added technical problems.

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In the old days, if you wanted to communicate with a satellite or a warship, you needed a suite of hardware designed for that specific kind of exchange.

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No matter how many times a person has daydreamed, acted it out with Barbie and Ken, and emotionally bolstered for the exchange, or if it's come thudding from the sky like an errant chunk of satellite, a proposal carries an impact that must be absorbed.

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" Speaking via satellite from Washington to the International Monetary Conference in Barcelona, Spain, Bernanke also noted that even though the foreign exchange value of the dollar has been relatively stable in recent months, "the possibility that commodity prices will continue to rise is an important risk to the inflation forecast.

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Among the high-profile deals it has given the green light within the past year: the union of XM Satellite Radio (nasdaq: XMSR - news - people ) and Sirius, and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange 's (nyse: CME - news - people ) purchase of the Chicago Board of Trade.

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