Following the implementation of RegFD in the fall of 2000, Boston-based Corporate Communications Broadcast Network (CCBN), Boston's Thomson Financial , a unit of Toronto-based media giant Thomson (nyse: TOC - news - people ), and Maynard, Mass.

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The longer-range solution is for the federal government toc re-purpose unused and underused radio spectrum for mobile broadband purposes.

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What makes this case weird is that CCBN.com's cofounder Jeffrey Parker had a long and amiable relationship with Thomson (nyse: TOC - news - people ).

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One analyst who did not wish to be named said Thomson (nyse: TOC - news - people ) was currently the most likely candidate for buying Reuters because a merger between the two would make industrial sense.

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In fact, the text used in the original print-centric TOC fit perfectly in the new look.

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In particular, it tells a bidder how much capital its so-called Train Operating Company (TOC) would have to hold as a protection for taxpayers against the risk that in the course of operating the franchise the TOC went bust or risked going bust.

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The 50 series employs a Charcoal gray ToC design, a stand with a chrome finish and a delicate wave back-pattern.

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