For universal-service funds and for telecoms in general, the trend is clear: phones first, broadband later.
Now 32, he has just released his fifth studio album, See Me Mama, on his own Universal-distributed label.
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Telecoms lose money on the copper-wire landlines maintained to comply with universal-service requirements.
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But stand-alone investment banks face an even wobblier future than their universal-banking cousins.
The second objection is that there are diversification benefits to the universal-banking model.
But even if machines are closely monitored by polling staff--a condition that's far from universal--a more realistic concern may be innocent bugs that miscount or ignore votes.
"In our society, the meaning of marriage is universal - it's a declaration of love and commitment to a special person, " Labour MP Louisa Wall, who introduced the legislation, said.
That October, McDonough and other Senate staffers convened about twenty of the most influential leaders and lobbyists from hospital associations, the pharmaceutical industry, the insurance industry, the labor movement, and universal-health-care advocacy groups.
Babel raises the question of the universal-language instinct.
"As media became more plentiful and visual in the 1980s, child abductions and child murders allowed for the kinds of images that are at once intimate and universal -- like school photos and grieving families, " Friedman said.
More intriguingly, however, Jung sits on the board of General Electric, which owns 80% of NBC Universal--that could help ease the slap fight between Apple and NBC over online video sales (a point blog Valleywag first pointed out).
More intriguingly, however, Jung sits on the board of General Electric (nyse: GE - news - people ), which owns 80% of NBC Universal--that could help ease the slap fight between Apple and NBC over online video sales (a point blog Valleywag first pointed out).
Instead, here we have a smart, modular, near-universal app-based intervalometer.
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Comcast ( CMCSA - news - people )-NBC Universal tie-up would produce a credible ESPN rival care of NBC's NFL package and Comcast's regional sports networks and Versus, most analysts aren't concerned given ESPN's brand, long-term contracts and financial wherewithal.
The debate regarding the nature of the world market environment is misplaced because it views multinationalization, globalization, and semiglobalization as universal and mutually exclusive trends that create a unique world market environment, rather than non-universal, non-mutually exclusive trends that create diverse world market environments.
Computers are commonly equipped with a USB -- universal serial bus -- port.
Because bankruptcy laws attempt to overcome this market failure, they are, in effect, a state-imposed system of universal financial-distress insurance.
Polling since the debate generally shows small or no shifts in the vote preference of all registered voters, but big shifts in enthusiasm, and better margins after a likely voter screen. (Pew is the exception, and apparent outlier.) Vote preferences have remained remarkably stable despite overwhelming and near-universal negative post-debate coverage of the President.
Changes to child benefit payments for the better-off - introducing means-testing for the previously universal benefit - come into effect at midnight on 7 January.
The Conservatives said they also forced the government to backtrack on the plans to levy a charge on landline phone bills - due to come into force in October - to pay for the universal roll-out of broadband.
Several of the larger Hollywood studios -- Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox and Universal Pictures -- sat out "the Con" this year, which opened up more room for the growing number of online series from the likes of YouTube, Hulu and Netflix as well as gaming.
But many different models can rise from a foundation of universal (or near-universal) coverage.
Their worries might not make sense to those promising universal, or near-universal, access in Washington.
But that meant that they had to either dismantle their social spending programs--including universal health insurance--a politically difficult task, or maintain their sky-high taxes.
Rather than futzing with several remote controls to turn on your television and game console, the Wii U's built-in universal remote functionality -- which functions whether or not the Wii U itself is powered on -- streamlines everything down to just the game controller.
Nokia, the world's largest handset-maker, hopes to turn its tiny phones into universal remote-control devices, able to control everything from the television to the lights to the microwave.
Current smartphone technology allows for nearly infinitely granular targeting based on behavior, third-party data, contextual data such as location, and universal sign-in profiles.
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"A number of groups--particularly biz groups that historically have not been strongly in favor of universal coverage--seem to be going that direction, " says Larry Levitt, vice president of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a Washington, D.
Wyden-Bennett was eventually co-sponsored by eleven Republicans and nine Democrats, receiving more bipartisan support than any universal health-care proposal in the history of the Senate.
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