Although the chart in Figure 3 looks lumpy, it indicates that there is a broad band of requirements for the various applications.

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One, there is still a rapidly growing worldwide broad band economy that even our dumb governments have not yet been able to screw up.

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Of these, Gilberto Gil's album, Banda Larga Cordel which means "Stories from the Broad Band" appears to have the best chance of winning.

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Replacing 40 different directives with one broad band of red tape should make chemical registration faster and less cumbersome, says Franco Bisegna of the European Chemical Industry Council, a lobby group.

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Through a series of honey pots, email accounts set up to capture spam samples, it is possible to quickly identify the sources of spam, usually infected hosts belonging to consumers with broad band access.

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While the professors have made quite a stir in the press, Corning points out that the fiber produced by the professors has not come up to the quality of the existing Corning fiber--inferior in the important broad band qualities needed for carrying the varied communications of the future.

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The circus was invented in the 1760s by a British cavalry officer, Philip Astley, who started with trick riding, moved on to "hippodrama" (plays in which horses took center stage) and established many of the basics of circuses, including brass-band marching tunes, a broad center ring and even the "big top" itself.

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