When word was leaked to the Packard dealer network that they would be losing their best-selling Packard model to " Clipper ", they balked.

Sipping their coffee, discussing the weather, the day's shopping, Fritzie's commitments at the network ( all of which he would cancel ), they avoided the radio, the morning TV news show, even the front page of the Santa Luisa Register, resting on the kitchen bar.

At the centre of Alfred's reformed military defence system was a network of fortresses, or burhs, distributed at strategic points throughout the kingdom.

Guido Gelli, director of science at the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics ( IBGE ), told the Brazilian TV network Globo in June 2007 that it could be considered as a fact that the Amazon was the longest river in the world.

Additionally, the adaptors were designed to be " self-terminating ", meaning that nodes at the end of the network could simply leave their last connector unconnected.

To maintain network performance, networks may apply traffic policing to virtual circuits to limit them to their traffic contracts at the entry points to the network, i. e. the User – network interfaces ( UNIs ) and Network-to-network interfaces ( NNIs ): Usage / Network Parameter Control ( UPC and NPC ).

Telstra deployed a CDMA network, which did not suffer this limitation, and while the AMPS network was closed down at the end of 1999 in the major cities, the closure deadline was extended until the end of 2000 in rural areas to ease the transition to CDMA.

It was the third largest AMPS network, by subscribers, in the world at the time of its turndown.

Minsk has a digital metropolitan network ; waiting lists for telephones are long ; fixed line penetration is improving although rural areas continue to be undeserved ; intercity-Belarus has developed fibre-optic backbone system presently serving at least 13 major cities ( 1998 ); Belarus's fibre optics form synchronous digital hierarchy rings through other countries ' systems ; an inadequate analogue system remains operational.

At a meeting in August 2006 with members of the Rwanda Patriotic Front, Wu Guanzheng, of the Communist Party of China, confirmed the intention of the People's Republic of China to fund a study into the feasibility of constructing a railway connecting at Isaka with the existing Tanzanian railway network, and running via Kigali in Rwanda through to Burundi.

At that time, Olson and friend Rosalie ( Ricky ) Gaull Silberman started an informal network of women who supported the Thomas nomination to the Supreme Court despite allegations of sexual harassment by Anita Hill, a former subordinate of Thomas at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

A broadcast domain is a logical division of a computer network, in which all nodes can reach each other by broadcast at the data link layer.

* BlitzMail, the internal e-mail network at Dartmouth College

The Black Hand took over the terrorist actions of Narodna Odbrana, and worked deliberately at obscuring any distinctions between the two groups, trading on the prestige and network of the older organization.

On 23 July Austria-Hungary delivered a toughly worded letter to Serbia with ten enumerated demands and additional demands in the preamble aimed at the destruction of the anti-Austrian terrorist and propaganda network in Serbia.

The Shh signaling network behaves as a bistable switch, allowing the cell to abruptly switch states at precise Shh concentrations.

Where at least one process in one device is able to send / receive data to / from at least one process residing in a remote device, then the two devices are said to be in a network.

Individual printers are often designed to support both local and network connected users at the same time.

fixed-line connections stand at less than 1 per 100 persons ; equipment is old and outdated, and connections with many parts of the country are unreliable ; mobile-cellular usage, in part a reflection of the poor condition and general inadequacy of the fixed-line network, increased more than 6-fold between 2002 and 2007 reaching a subscribership base of 25 per 100 persons

Cameroon lies at a key point in the Trans-African Highway network, with three routes crossing its territory:

Community colleges in Malaysia are a network of educational institutions whereby vocational and technical skills training could be provided at all levels for school leavers before they entered the workforce.

Worms almost always cause at least some harm to the network, even if only by consuming bandwidth, whereas viruses almost always corrupt or modify files on a targeted computer.

The intuitive idea underlying discharging is to consider the planar graph as an electrical network.

The main idea of HTTPS is to create a secure channel over an insecure network.

From Germany the idea spread to the UK, Canada, the United States and beyond where a network of clubs developed.

The construction of motorways began in the early 1990s with the idea building a world class road network and to reduce the load off the heavily used national highways throughout the country.

Second, they were connectionless devices, which had no role in assuring that traffic was delivered reliably, leaving that entirely to the hosts ( this particular idea had been previously pioneered in the CYCLADES network ).

Because most of the engineering skill of British Rail had been sold off into the maintenance and renewal companies, Railtrack had no idea how many Hatfields were waiting to happen, nor did they have any way of assessing the consequence of the speed restrictions they were ordering-restrictions that brought the railway network to all but a standstill.

The idea of treating network operations as remote procedure calls goes back at least to the 1980s in early ARPANET documents.

By May, Kline had sold the idea to 48 NBC stations and the Canadian CTV network.

More recent work on Word Grammar cites neurocognitive linguistics as a source of inspiration for the idea that language is nothing but a network.

The idea of a network system which would distribute programming to many stations simultaneously, saving each station the expense of creating all of its own programs and expanding the total coverage beyond the limits of a single broadcast signal, was devised.

Powell advocated the privatisation of the Post Office and the telephone network as early as 1964, over 20 years before the latter actually took place ; and he both scorned the idea of " consensus politics " and wanted the Conservative Party to become a modern business-like party, freed from its old aristocratic and " old boy network " associations.

The basic idea is to avoid data accumulation inside the network.

It promoted the idea of a consistent model of protocol layers, defining interoperability between network devices and software.

Telephony's initial idea returns to POTS, ( an acronym for " plain old telephone service ") technically called the PSTN ( public-switched telephone network ).

After Seattle the idea and network spread rapidly.

The resilience of the Internet results from its principal architectural features, most notably the idea of placing as few network state and control functions as possible in the network elements, but instead relying on the endpoints of communication to handle most of the processing to ensure data integrity, reliability, and authentication.

The idea of such an order, exemplified by the network of astronomers, professors, mathematicians, and natural philosophers in 16th century Europe and promoted by men such as Johannes Kepler, Georg Joachim Rheticus, John Dee and Tycho Brahe, gave rise to the Invisible College.

However, the node does not have any idea of the actual network topology, nor does the node need it.

In 2000, the Russian government revived the idea, adding a suggestion that a 40-km-long bridge could be constructed between Sakhalin and the Japanese island of Hokkaidō, providing Japan with a direct connection to the Euro-Asian railway network.

A group of investors, led by Al Bruner and Peter Hill, founded Global Communications Ltd. with the idea of building a cross-Canada, all-UHF network.

The purpose of these raids was to seize the transportation network of Canada, with the idea that this would force the British to exchange Ireland's freedom for possession of their Province of Canada.

He then claims that the idea ( of a 24 hour sports network ) will never become popular, and will be a financial and cultural disaster ( claiming it's as ridiculous as a 24-hour cooking network or an all music channel ).