| Standard & Poor’s maintains a
cautious stance on cable-TV operators in the wake of Verizon’s (VZ) announcement
in early May of aggressive price cuts for its digital subscriber line (DSL)
Internet-access service. Our overall outlook for the S & P Cable &
Broadcasting index, which also includes shares of over-the-air TV and radio
broadcasters, is neutral to modestly positive. Cable operators have so far
ruled out an overt price war on broadband services. However, expect to see
near-term responses like increased bundling of services, extended free months,
more aggressive marketing and promotions, even modest price cuts from cable
outfits that offer multiple services such as broadband as they defend their
high- growth Internet-access Business. Continued rapid growth in digital cable and high-speed data services helped support the industr A. has produced a positive effect on S & P Cable and Broadcasting index B. will intensify the competition among Cable-TV operators in the near future C. render aggressive price cuts from other cable outfits absolutely impossible D. will make other cable operators offer multiple services like broadband [单项选择]Standard & Poor’s maintains a cautious stance on cable-TV operators in the wake of Verizon’s (VZ) announcement in early May of aggressive price cuts for its digital subscriber line (DSL) Internet-access service. Our overall outlook for the S & P Cable & Broadcasting index, which also includes shares of over-the-air TV and radio broadcasters, is neutral to modestly positive. Cable operators have so far ruled out an overt price war on broadband services. However, expect to see near-term responses like increased bundling of services, extended free months, more aggressive marketing and promotions, even modest price cuts from cable outfits that offer multiple services such as broadband as they defend their high- growth Internet-access Business.
Continued rapid growth in digital cable and high-speed data services helped support the industry’s ongoing revenue growth. We at S & P are wary of price pressures on the long-term and short-term economics of cable’s broadband business. That’s es A. has produced a positive effect on S & P Cable and Broadcasting index B. will intensify the competition among Cable-TV operators in the near future C. render aggressive price cuts from other cable outfits absolutely impossible D. will make other cable operators offer multiple services like broadband [单项选择]The standard writer’s contract features two- tiered compensation, including an ______ issued upon completion of the work, followed by a share of the revenues earned by sales.
A. advance B. assessment C. allowance D. incentive [单项选择]A Country’s Standard of Living
The "standard of living" of any country means the average person’s share of the goods and services the country produces. A country’s standard of living, _____(51), depends on its capacity to produce wealth. "Wealth"_____(52) this sense is not money, for we do riot live on money_____(53) on things that money can buy: "goods" such as food and clothing, and "services" such as transport and entertainment.
A country’s capacity to produce wealth depends upon many factors, most of_____(54) have an effect on one another. Wealth depends_____(55) a great extent upon a country’s natural resources. Some regions of the world are well supplied with coal and minerals, and have fertile (肥沃的) soil and a favorable climate; other regions possess none of them.
Next to natural resources_____(56) the ability to turn them to use. China is perhaps as well-off_____(57) the USA in natural resources, but suffered for many years from civil and external wars, and___
A. uneasy B. incapable C. impossible D. unable 我来回答: 提交
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