But most of that money was spent trying to defend the long distance business.
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The sole rival, SBC Communications, is still barred by federal law from offering the long distance fiber services that CapRock provides.
Past Olympic recipients have included the long distance runner Paula Radcliffe and rower Tim Foster, who both have connections with the town.
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"At the time of privatisation it was felt that the market would regulate peak time fares on the long distance journeys, " Doe says.
The whole point of the original litigation by the U.S. Dept. of Justice was to force more competition into the long distance telephony space.
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For the long distance operators the proportion of passengers who were very or fairly satisfied overall was 89% - this figure was 86% in autumn 2011.
That didn't work because rather than costs falling they rose under the new franchises, who also put prices up disproportionately on the long distance Anytime ticket.
More arrogant yet, the FCC is ticked off at the long distance telephone companies for breaking out this charge on their monthly phone bills instead of burying it in their other fees.
The company unveiled its slate of 2013-14 offerings Thursday, which also includes a stage adaptation of Alan Sillitoe's beloved short story "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" adapted by British playwright Roy Williams.
Which is why it is probably appropriate that Stream is held each year in Marathon - the little town outside Athens that knows all about the unchanging and challenging nature of the long distance race.
You get the long distance phone call.
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An added risk was the relatively long distance to the nearest ambulance station, he told BBC News Online.
Bush and Gore have not yet agreed when and where to formally debate this fall, and the long-distance debate over the debates extended into Monday's events.
Six miles east of Lanercost, I reach the tranquil bend of the River Irthing, where a new bridge carries the long-distance footpath to the hamlet of Willowford.
The move, executives say, will keep the long-distance business from dragging on the fast-growing business of selling data services to business customers.
Jessica Ennis, the victorious, mixed-race heptathlete, and Mo Farah, the long-distance champion and Muslim who arrived from Somalia as a child (and who prayed on the track after he won the 10, 000 metres) may have some therapeutic influence on attitudes to race and immigration.
The long-distance industry is limping along due to falling prices and stiff competition.
More recently Galileo, a probe now investigating Jupiter, has been the beneficiary of the long-distance fixers' art.
The sole rival, SBC Communications, is still barred by federal law from offering the long- distance fiber services that CapRock provides.
For this story alone, there were the long-distance calls, computers, electricity, wages, health benefits and at least two Starbucks lattes (grande size) involved.
The long-distance transportation of animals for slaughter is "a madness", according to veterinary surgeon David Wilkins, Director of the Eurogroup for Animal Welfare.
He won the 10, 000 in Athens and was aiming to become the first man since compatriot Miruts Yifter in 1980 to win the long-distance double.
Butthat short leg from the long-distance network to homes and offices is a contorted mish-mash of copper phone lines, TV cables, fiber and wireless systems.
Butthat short leg from the long-distance network to homes and offices is a contorted mishmash of copper phone lines, TV cables, fiber and wireless systems.
Another possibility, though, is that Qwest itself will fall victim to America's telecoms-merger frenzy perhaps to a Baby Bell in a hurry to enter the long-distance market.
Last April, F-Secure researcher Mikko Hyppo nen found a Trojan masquerading as a first-person shooter game for Windows Mobile, which secretly made calls to international numbers in places as farflung as Sao Tome and North Korea, using what appeared to be a revenue sharing agreement to split the cash with the companies that placed the long-distance calls.
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And one driver of that trend, says Gregory Guldner, director of the Center for the Study of Long Distance Relationships, is the perception that technology reduces the emotional separation of distance.
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