Porter Definition–noun | 1. | a person hired to carry burdens or baggage, as at a railroad station or a hotel. | | 2. | a person who does cleaning and maintenance work in a building, factory, store, etc. | | 3. | an attendant in a railroad parlor car or sleepin
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Cable Definition–noun | 2. | a very strong rope made of strands of metal wire, as used to support cable cars or suspension bridges. | | 3. | a cord of metal wire used to operate or pull a mechanism. | | 4. | Nautical. | a. | a thick hawser made of rope, strands of metal wire, or chain. | | | 5. | Electricity. an insulated electrical conductor, often in strands, or a combination of electrical conductors insulated from one another. | | 9. | Architecture. one of a number of reedings set into the flutes of a column or pilaster. | –verb (used with object) | 10. | to send (a message) by cable. | | 11. | to send a cablegram to. | | 12. | to fasten with a cable. | | 13. | to furnish with a cable. | | 14. | to join (cities, parts of a country, etc.) by means of a cable television network: The state will be completely cab
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Media in Canada - Found Dec. 4, 2008
... in the past few weeks, slides down to #4. Porter Airlines drops ... Tire climbs onto the top 10 chart at #6 from #35. Rogers Cable and Solo ...
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Los Angeles Times - Found Dec. 4, 2008
Fighter,' will be featured at least 38 times this month alone on Spike, a cable network aimed at young ... Nearby, 29-year-old Kirk Porter agreed.
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Beyond the boob tube
Plant Services - Found Dec. 4, 2008
... father, who once spent most of his time watching cable TV, said that ... among these include Harvard MBA Professor Michael Porter, former ...
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Northumberland Today - Found Dec. 3, 2008
50 p. m. Nov. 28. A Canon digital camera, a Hewlett Packard laptop computer, a Mastercraft mitre saw, a Porter Cable brad nailer, a Black and...
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The Age - Found Dec. 2, 2008
... rather, the Government could 'backfill' where customers may miss out,'' Dr Porter writes. He describes cable as a ''lost opportunity'' that...
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Economic think tank urges competition between technologies
WA Today.com.au - Found Dec. 2, 2008
... rather, the Government could 'backfill' where customers may miss out,'' Dr Porter writes. He describes cable as a ''lost opportunity'' that...
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CEDA says competition not NBN is key to broadband success
ITWire - Found Dec. 3, 2008
Dr Porter maintains the current policy debate should be about much more than the FTTN rollout, since existing cable and evolving mobile...
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